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Article: Alaska Airlines Presents Offers on Key Sections of Proposed Pilot Contract.
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- May 20, 2008
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SEATTLE, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As part of its ongoing negotiations with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), Alaska Airlines last week presented counter-offers on key sections of a proposed contract. Alaska Airlines issued the following statement regarding its bargaining with ALPA to date:
"Since negotiations began, the company has been clear that we are open to a wide variety of tradeoffs, such as increasing wages and retirement security in exchange for improved productivity. However, Alaska Airlines, the ninth-largest U.S. carrier, has the second-highest pilot labor costs in the industry and is not in a position to increase the total cost of its ...