Union Demands Best-Ever Contract for
Technicians and Related Employees
CHICAGO, Aug. 6, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, The United Airlines Teamsters National
Negotiating Committee began collective bargaining with the carrier
for a new contract covering 10,000 aviation maintenance and related
Teamsters nationwide.
"United Airlines Teamsters are the best in the business. This
contract needs to recognize and reward our members with the
improved wages, benefits, and protections they deserve," said
Teamsters General President Sean M.
O'Brien. "There is no organization better equipped to secure
an industry-leading contract than the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters and our national negotiating committee."
"We've added more rank-and-filers to the bargaining committee
than ever before. We've received input from thousands of members
about what they want in this agreement. We've never been more ready
to secure the best contract in aviation maintenance," said
Chris Griswold, Teamsters Airline
Division Director and International Vice President At-Large. "We
will hold this company's feet to the fire."
United Airlines Teamsters are demanding industry-leading wages,
a faster timeline for reaching the top pay rate, improved health
care benefits, and higher safety standards. The union is getting a
jump-start on bargaining by opening the contract four months before
it becomes amendable.
"We're running a bottom-up contract campaign that's unlike
anything that's ever been seen before at United Airlines," said
Joe Prisco, a Teamsters Local 856
technician and member of the union's bargaining committee. "United
needs to bring their big boy wallet when they come to bargain with
us. We're mobilizing, we're unifying, and we're going to do
whatever it takes to get what we've earned."
Following negotiations today and tomorrow, the Teamsters and
United Airlines will meet again August
20-22 in Denver.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
represents 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto
Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow
us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at
Facebook.com/teamsters.
Contact:
Matt McQuaid, (202)
624-6877
mmcquaid@teamster.org
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