Bloomberg:
AMR May Face Attendant Strike Vote as Talks Near End (Update1)
By Mary Schlangenstein
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- American Airlines may face a strike vote by flight attendants as soon as Jan. 22 as the world’s second-largest carrier and the employees’ union approach the end of their bargaining session tomorrow.
Balloting may be pushed back if the two sides are making progress when the talks near their scheduled conclusion, said Laura Glading, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. No walkout is imminent.
The so-called focused negotiations that began Jan. 11 are a bid to wrap up bargaining that began in June 2008 with Fort Worth, Texas-based American trying to reduce its industry- leading labor expenses and attendants pushing for higher pay. The union struck the AMR Corp. unit for five days in 1993.
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