JIM SORG
1957 - 1966
STATION AGENT
TUL STL


James F Sorg
Per 3/24/1965 STL Personnel Roster
-Jake Lamkins
(1/27/11)

I found Jim's obituary while doing a periodic web search for Frontier deaths.
https://www.gehlbachandroyse.com/obituaries/James-F-Sorg?obId=22618763
Eulogy
Sorry for the loss of Jim. Just found out about this yesterday, from Deloris. 
Jim and family were friends from back in the 1950s in Tulsa, OK where my Dad and Jim worked together at Central Airlines. 
Took Jim fishing with me in Colorado. He had a great time, and caught a large rainbow trout.
-Harold Hopkins Jr
December 14, 2021
(3/30/22)

JAMES F. SORG
Passenger service agent seniority date of 6/1/57
Per the Jan 1962 CN agents seniority list.
The last CN article he is in is dated Sep 1965.
He is not on the Dec 1970 employees roster.
The Oct 1995 news item below says he had 22 years with TWA in 1988 so that means he left Central in 1966.
-Jake Lamkins
(4/12/22)

October 21, 1995
The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky · Page 2
Five years after two Trans World Airlines customer-service agents were found to have been the victims 
of age discrimination, the Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned the finding. 
The court ruled yesterday that TWA did not discriminate against James Sorg, then 51, 
and Melvin Franklin, then 57, when it eliminated thier jobs.
The Appeals judge says decisions were for valid business reasons their full-time jobs 
and offered them part-time positions. 
TWA made a valid business decision to replace some full-time staff with part-time workers, 
and the two men lost their jobs because they had less seniority than other workers, Judge Anthony Wilhoit wrote for the court. 
Sorg and Franklin failed to prove that TWA was using the reduction in full-time workers as a smokescreen for age discrimination, Wilhoit wrote. 
The decision overturns earlier rulings by the Louisville and Jefferson County Human Relations Commission, 
which were affirmed by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Edwin Schroering. 
In 1990, the commission ordered TWA to reinstate the two men to their former jobs and to pay them any lost wages and benefits. 
Schroering upheld the commission's finding later that year. 
Sorg had worked for TWA for 22 years and Franklin for 32 years when they lost their full-time jobs 
when the airline reorganized its Louisville operation in 1988. 
As the least-senior Louisville employees in their job category, they were offered the choice 
of taking part-time jobs in Louisville, full-time jobs in another city or quitting. 
Franklin took a part-time job in Louisville while Sorg accepted a full-time position at Cincinnati International Airport. 
TWA argued that its personnel decisions were made on the basis of seniority alone. 
While the commission and Schroering rejected that explanation, the appellate court noted that one 
of the employees who kept his job in the restructuring was older than either Sorg or Franklin.
-https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/111281881/
(4/14/22)

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JIM SORG
1957 - 1966
STATION AGENT
TUL STL
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-Jake Lamkins
(4/14/22)