May 1, 2008

(Washington, D.C.) –Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced on Wednesday that Capt. David Bourne will join the Union as Airline Division Director.

Don Treichler, who led the division for nine years, is retiring.

“I want to thank Don for his service to the Union and its members,” Hoffa said. “I wish him well in his retirement.”

Bourne is a Boeing 747-400 captain who until recently served as the master executive council chairman for the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) unit at Atlas Air, Inc. After leading two organizing drives at Atlas, a bitter court battle and two efforts to secure a contract, in July 2002 he signed the first collective bargaining agreement in Atlas Air’s history.

“Dave’s lifelong commitment to the labor movement will serve him well during these difficult times for so many aviation employees,” Hoffa said.

Bourne has served as vice chairman of ALPA’s Presidents Committee on Cargo. He has been captain of International Operations for Washington, D.C.-based Riggs National Bank. Before that, he was chief pilot of the corporate flight department for the president of the AFL-CIO, under the Building and Construction Trades Department.

Bourne has a long, proud union background. Both his father and grandfather worked the mines in West Virginia. His first job in aviation was as a substitute co-pilot for the Teamsters.

“I deeply appreciate all the support I’ve had from ALPA over the years,” Bourne said. “I look forward to the challenges at the Teamsters, where I intend to make sure the members’ interests are protected as the aviation industry adjusts to economic challenges and consolidations.”

A graduate of George Mason University, Bourne and his wife Maureen live in Purcellville, Virginia.

Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million hardworking men and women in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.