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Article: With labor costs cut, United CEO vows to press on.(United Airlines chief executive Glenn Tilton)
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- The Denver Post (Denver, CO)
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- June 2, 2005
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Byline: Kelly Yamanouchi
Jun. 2--When Glenn Tilton interviewed for the job of United Airlines chief executive nearly three years ago, he reportedly impressed the board by calling himself "a grinder."
"When he runs into a problem, he has the tenacity to keep attacking it until he solves it," a former pilots union leader said in 2003 of United's boss.
This week, Tilton ground past one of his key goals: cutting labor costs. But it was far from easy.
United spent six months making cost-slashing deals with its major unions, including a final, urgently needed "agreement in principle" with the last union Tuesday. Somehow, through it all, the ...