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77 Delta pilots picket for a amended declaration extracurricular of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Leslie Josephs | CNBC
Delta Air Lines pilots voted overwhelmingly to authorize a onslaught if declaration talks betwixt the bearer and the national don't pb to an agreement, the labour radical said Monday.
A onslaught wouldn't beryllium contiguous and it would necessitate permissions from the national National Mediation board. The Air Line Pilots Association national said it wants a contract, not a strike.
Covid derailed declaration talks passim the hose manufacture starting successful 2020. Talks person since resumed, and the Delta aviator onslaught ballot underscores the trouble successful getting agreements through.
Pilots for U.S. carriers similar Delta and competitors American Airlines, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines person have precocious picketed astatine large airports to request amended contracts arsenic the manufacture returns to profitability.
"Meanwhile, our negotiations person dragged connected for excessively long. Our extremity is to scope an agreement, not to strike," said Capt. Jason Ambrosi, seat of the Delta maestro enforcement assembly of the Air Line Pilots Association. "The shot is successful management's court. It's clip for the Company to get superior astatine the bargaining array and put successful the Delta pilots."
Delta said the ballot won't impact its operation, since the pilots are not connected strike, and that the bearer and national person made "significant progress" successful their talks.
"ALPA's stated intent for the ballot is simply to summation leverage successful our aviator declaration negotiations, which proceed to advancement nether the mean process acceptable by the Railway Labor Act and successful concern with the National Mediation Board," the hose said successful a statement. "We are assured that the parties volition scope an statement that is just and equitable, arsenic we ever person successful past negotiations."
Earlier this year, Alaska Airlines pilots voted to authorize a imaginable strike. Pilots for that hose precocious reached a caller declaration statement with the company.
