Pilots at Delta Air Strains have voted to authorize a strike if negotiators can't attain settlement on a new employment contract, their union stated on Monday.
The Air Line Pilots Affiliation, which represents almost 15,000 pilots on the Atlanta-based service, stated 99% of those that solid their ballots backed strike authorization.
Beneath US legislation, Delta pilots can't stroll off the job till the Nationwide Mediation Board grants them permission.
The board should first resolve that further mediation efforts wouldn't be productive and provide the events a possibility to arbitrate. If both facet declines, each events enter a 30-day “cooling off” interval, after which pilots and administration can have interaction in self-help — a strike by the union or a lockout by administration.
This prolonged and complicated course of makes it troublesome for airline staff to strike. The final pilot strike at a US passenger service was at Spirit Airways in 2010.
Delta stated its pilots aren't on strike and the vote is not going to have an effect on its operation. The service stated “important progress” has been made within the contract negotiations and only some points are left to resolve.
“ALPA’s said function for the vote is solely to realize leverage in our pilot contract negotiations,” an organization spokesperson stated. “We're assured that the events will attain an settlement that's honest and equitable, as we at all times have in previous negotiations.”
Delta’s pilot union stated the contract negotiations have dragged on for too lengthy. “It’s time for the corporate to get critical on the bargaining desk and spend money on the Delta pilots,” stated Jason Ambrosi, chairman of the Delta Grasp Govt Council.
Delta pilots have been working with out a new contract for almost three years after their outdated contract turned amendable in December 2019.
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