American Airlines Pilot Union Leaders Reject Proposed Contract
Airline pilots are seeking raises and quality-of-life improvements.
Photo:
Lucia Buricelli/Bloomberg News
Leaders of the union that represents pilots at
American Airlines Group Inc.
AAL -3.76%
on Wednesday rejected a contract proposal that included pay raises of about 20% over a two-year period.
The board of the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American’s roughly 15,000 pilots, voted against a tentative deal the airline and union negotiators struck last week.
The rejection is the latest in a series of snags in talks between airlines and pilots, who are seeking pay raises as well as better schedules and other changes they say will improve their quality of life. Pilots at
United Airlines Holdings Inc.
UAL -3.63%
this week spurned a tentative agreement that would have provided raises of more than 14.5% over 18 months, and pilots at
Delta Air Lines Inc.
DAL -4.67%
voted to authorize union leaders to call a strike if they deem it necessary.
American’s proposal would have boosted pay for its pilots by 12% initially, with another raise of 5% after a year and 2% after two years. The latest offer was an improvement over American’s initial offer of raises totaling 17%, but union officials said the tentative deal didn’t adequately address pilots’ other concerns.
“American’s management has done very little to address contract provisions regarding schedule reliability, and instead focused more on keeping mainline pilots’ pay increases as low as possible,” said
Dennis Tajer,
an American captain and union spokesman.
American had no immediate comment.
While fraught labor relations and rancorous bargaining are nothing new for the airline industry, talks between the two sides have grown more combative this year. Contract negotiations were put on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic, delaying pay raises, and the subsequent surge in travel has led to frustration among pilots and other labor groups.
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Airline pilots are seeking raises and quality-of-life improvements.
Photo:
Lucia Buricelli/Bloomberg News
Leaders of the union that represents pilots at
American Airlines Group Inc.
AAL -3.76%
on Wednesday rejected a contract proposal that included pay raises of about 20% over a two-year period.
The board of the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American’s roughly 15,000 pilots, voted against a tentative deal the airline and union negotiators struck last week.
The rejection is the latest in a series of snags in talks between airlines and pilots, who are seeking pay raises as well as better schedules and other changes they say will improve their quality of life. Pilots at
United Airlines Holdings Inc.
UAL -3.63%
this week spurned a tentative agreement that would have provided raises of more than 14.5% over 18 months, and pilots at
Delta Air Lines Inc.
DAL -4.67%
voted to authorize union leaders to call a strike if they deem it necessary.
American’s proposal would have boosted pay for its pilots by 12% initially, with another raise of 5% after a year and 2% after two years. The latest offer was an improvement over American’s initial offer of raises totaling 17%, but union officials said the tentative deal didn’t adequately address pilots’ other concerns.
“American’s management has done very little to address contract provisions regarding schedule reliability, and instead focused more on keeping mainline pilots’ pay increases as low as possible,” said
Dennis Tajer,
an American captain and union spokesman.
American had no immediate comment.
While fraught labor relations and rancorous bargaining are nothing new for the airline industry, talks between the two sides have grown more combative this year. Contract negotiations were put on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic, delaying pay raises, and the subsequent surge in travel has led to frustration among pilots and other labor groups.
Write to Alison Sider at [email protected]
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