Flight attendants at American Airlines have approved a new contract after years of negotiations. That ends the union's threat of a strike against one of the country's biggest airlines. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants said Thursday that 87% of its members who voted agreed to ratify a deal negotiated with American.
FILE - American Airlines passenger jets prepare for departure, July 21, 2021, near a terminal at Boston Logan International Airport in Boston. FORT WORTH, Texas — Flight attendants at American Airlines voted Thursday to ratify a new contract, ending a long dispute that got the attention of President Joe Biden after the cabin crews threatened to go on strike.
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants said that the five-year contract includes pay increases of up to 20.5% on Oct. 1 and pay for the time that passengers are boarding planes.during boarding to its nonunion cabin crews in 2022, putting pressure on unions to bargain for the same benefit for their members.
The deal covers about 28,000 attendants at American, which is based in Fort Worth, Texas. The union said 87% of its members who voted favored ratification, and 95% of eligible employees took part.from the National Mediation Board. Under federal law, the board must determine that negotiations are deadlocked before unions can strike. The last strike at a U.S. airline was in 2010 at Spirit Airlines.
that included an immediate 18% pay hike followed by annual 2% raises. The union sought a 33% raise upfront, followed by four annual increases of 6% each. The deal at American follows one at Southwest Airlines, where flight attendants voted in April to ratify a contract that will give them cumulative pay raises of about 33% over four years.
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