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Article: ALPA Announces Alaska Pilots Ratify Tentative Agreement.
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- August 31, 2001
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SEATTLE, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ --
The 1,461 pilots at Alaska Airlines, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), have ratified the tentative agreement reached between ALPA and Alaska management earlier this month. Of the pilots eligible to participate in the telephone balloting process, 97.2 % participated in the vote and 82.5% voted in favor the deal.
"Our members have long sought more involvement in determining their future and their overwhelming participation in this ratification vote affirms that," said Captain John Sluys, chairman of the Alaska master executive council. "This positive mid-term contract adjustment is part ...