United Pilots ‘Overwhelmingly’ Reject New Airline Contract

The negotiations between the United Airline pilots union and the airline will proceed after pilots “overwhelmingly” rejected a tentative settlement that will have given them a couple of 15 % elevate over the following yr and a half.

CNBC studies that just about 10,000 of United’s 14,000 pilots participated within the vote, and 94 % of them (about 9,400) voted towards the settlement.

The Air Line Pilots Affiliation stated that the tentative settlement “fell wanting the industry-leading contract United pilots have earned and deserve after main the airline via the pandemic and again to profitability.”

Now, the union says it can arrange casual pickets to get United to return again to the desk.

“Sadly, administration has now taken a wait-and-see method to negotiations as a substitute of main the {industry} ahead,” United’s chapter of ALPA stated in an announcement.

United defended its place, saying it’s working with the ALPA on a brand new, industry-leading settlement that would come with greater pay charges amongst different “enhancements.”

That is simply the most recent in a unbroken saga of pilots’ unions versus airways. CNBC studies that a number of unions have struggled to succeed in agreements for brand new contracts with their airways. For essentially the most half, they’re in search of raises and higher scheduling as airways return to profitability following the pandemic hunch.

Lately, Delta pilots voted to authorize a possible strike if an settlement between their union and the airline couldn’t be made.