Article: Head of arbitration panel orders Delta, pilots union to immediately start negotiating

MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer
AP Worldstream
03-23-2006
Dateline: WASHINGTON
The head of an arbitration panel on Thursday ordered the management and pilots union at Delta Air Lines Inc. to immediately begin negotiating for an agreement to avoid a collapse of the 77-year-old airline.

In a strikingly impassioned statement at the end of nine days of hearings before the three-person panel, its chairman Richard Bloch chastised both sides and warned them that "failure is not an option."

The pilots union has promised to strike if Delta, which is operating under bankruptcy protection, is allowed to void its contract and impose $305 million (euro253 million) in pay cuts. Company executives say that ...

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