ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, April 10, 1996 TAG: 9604100082
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-6 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: CHICAGO
United Airlines' flight attendants union on Tuesday narrowly rejected a four-year contract that would have frozen pay for two years and limited raises for two more.
The contract proposal, which would have protected United's U.S. jobs throughout the period, failed on a vote of 7,400 to 7,115, said Kevin Lum, president of the United master executive council of the Association of Flight Attendants.
A key issue in the proposed contract would have prohibited United from opening additional flight attendant bases outside the United States and would have capped foreign flight attendant employment at 10 percent of the carrier's total.
Ratification had been in doubt because some of the union's 18,000 eligible voters were not satisfied that the foreign domiciles issues had been resolved.
The subject was a thorny one for the Association of Flight Attendants because overseas travels pay more than domestic flights, but younger flight attendants have fewer opportunities for such travel and were said to lean more toward receiving pay increases.
- Associated Press
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