The Dallas-based airline’s flight attendants will hold informational protests at Dallas Love Field over stalled contract talks.
the union of 6,100 Southwest Airlines customer service workers rejected a contract with raises, signing bonuses and overtime protection,The gripes are often the same within Southwest’s disgruntled labor groups and at other airlines where unions are fighting for new contracts put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic: Mandatory overtime, more pay to cover inflation and relief from airline delays and cancellations that have made life unpredictable.
“As long as we have been alive, weather has affected air travel,” Montgomery said. “But this is having a deep impact on our lives because it’s happening so much.” Southwest Airlines has been on a hiring binge over the last 18 months, adding more than 10,000 employees since January. It now has more employees than it did during the same period in 2019, the first major airline to do so. A majority of those workers have been in operational roles, the company said.
So far this summer, Southwest has avoided major meltdowns that have plagued airlines such as Delta, JetBlue and to some extent, Fort Worth-based American Airlines. Airlines including Southwest, American, United and Delta are all facing contract negotiations with major work groups after putting off discussions during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now talks are ramping back up again
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