The stalemate between United Airlines flight attendants and the carrier appears to be getting more contentious.
This is unless it is part of carefully constructed negotiating ploys on both sides, but these things can be devious at times.
The union representing the flight attendants has accused the airline of asking for unprecedented concessions. The accusations involved pay, night pay and misleading information, the union claims. The union says the airline is trying to make its offer look better.
The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) told its members in a rare weekend memo that the demands for concessions being made by United are “unheard of."
"Recently, management set up a website containing misleading information about negotiations, including dramatically inflating the number of hours Flight Attendants fly," the statment said. "As a pointer to management, if you have to assume a Flight Attendant flies 125 hours every month to make your proposals look good, perhaps you need to go back to the drawing board. In addition to being factually incorrect, it attempts to directly negotiate with individual Flight Attendants rather than engage in their legal obligation to negotiate with our union.”
A decision to use federal negotiators will not happen until early next year.
As usual, this has come down to pay. The union has asked for a 28 percent immediate increase, and then another four percent per year of the contract.
Flight attendants have already authorized a strike.
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