{"id":97031,"date":"2024-10-31T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/?p=97031"},"modified":"2024-10-30T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T06:05:35","slug":"american-airlines-workers-back-new-pay-deal-for-35000-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/2024\/10\/american-airlines-workers-back-new-pay-deal-for-35000-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines workers back new pay deal for 35,000 staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 35,000 American Airlines technical operations, fleet service, cargo and central load planning employees have voted to accept a new 27-month contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement covers improved economic conditions and pay rate increases for workers represented by the TWU-IAM Association.<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines CEO Robert Isom welcomed the ratification of the new agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this new agreement, our TWU-IAM Association-represented team members join their colleagues who have all approved new agreements that underscore American&#8217;s commitment to ensuring our team is paid well and competitively,&#8221; Isom said.<\/p>\n<p>The deal positions American Airlines workers among the highest-paid in the aviation industry.<\/p>\n<p>Isom praised the negotiating teams from both the airline and union for reaching a swift agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The contract extension follows a series of new labour agreements at the US carrier, which operates thousands of daily flights to more than 350 destinations across 60 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 35,000 American Airlines technical operations, fleet service, cargo and central load planning employees have voted to accept a new 27-month contract extension. The agreement covers improved economic conditions and pay rate increases for workers represented by the TWU-IAM Association. American Airlines CEO Robert Isom welcomed the ratification of the new agreement. &#8220;With this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3494,"featured_media":97032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97033,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97031\/revisions\/97033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}