Airlines next year are negotiating contracts with unions representing more than 120,000 workers.
over the summer blamed the unions representing their mechanics for purposefully slowing down work to gain leverage in years-long contract talks, causing
Southwest's talks with flight attendants will continue into next year, while it also holds talks with pilots customer service agents and dispatchers. The Dallas-based carrier's pilots and flight attendants are worried about the prolonged grounding of the "Since August, teams for the company and the union have met for multiple days nearly every week," said American Airlines spokesman Josh Freed, adding that the two groups have "made considerable progress" this month. The next round of talks are scheduled for Jan. 13-14.Unionized airline workers' contracts have amendable dates, and airlines have passed or are close to passing that point for several groups. But their contracts don't expire.
"Shame on us if we can't figure out over the course of a year how to get a contract done before the amendable date," CEO Doug Parker said in a town hall with pilots in June 2018, ahead of early talks. Those pilots complained after working record overtime in the summer as the Atlanta-based airline expanded its flight schedule to meet customer demand after rivals that flew the Boeing 737 Max cut thousands of flights over the peak travel period of the year. Delta is one of the few U.S. carriers that doesn't fly the troubled jetliner, which the FAA grounded in March after two crashes — one in Indonesia and another in Ethiopia — killed 346 people.
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