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Article: Four-year dispute at Pan Am ends. (Pan American World Air Ways Inc., Developments in Industrial Relations)
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1991
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Ending a prolonged dispute, Pan American World Airways and the Teamsters signed a 39-month labor contract, covering 6,800 workers (reservations and passenger service employees, cargo agents, clerical and accounting employees, stock clerks, and nurses). The agreement modified the terms and conditions of employment imposed on the workers when the carrier unilaterally implemented its final offer on February 21, 1988. This occurred after an impasse was reached in negotiations and the carrier became free, under the Railway Labor Act, to implement its final offer. (The Railway Labor Act is the Federal law that regulates labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. The ...