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Article: Alaska Airlines Presents Counter-Offers on Pilot Contract.
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- Travel & Leisure Close-Up
- Article date:
- May 21, 2008
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TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-21 May 2008-Alaska Airlines Presents Counter-Offers on Pilot Contract(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com
As part of its ongoing negotiations with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), Alaska Airlines 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 ...