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Article: United Airlines Ordered to Raise Flight Attendant Pay 5.49 Percent; Award Leaves Flight Attendants' 2002 Wages Below the Average of UAL's Competitors.
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- PR Newswire
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- June 28, 2002
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CHICAGO -- United Airlines flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, were awarded a 5.49 percent pay increase to help bring flight attendant pay closer to the average at other major carriers.
On May 30, an arbitration panel granted the flight attendants $48 million to make up for the amount the flight attendants' 2002 compensation currently lags behind the average of United's competition. The flight attendants asked the arbitration panel to distribute the full award in the year 2002, retroactive to April 1, 2002. That would have meant a 7.5 percent wage increase for flight attendants, raising the United flight attendant pay ...