Transport Workers Union reaches flight attendant deal at Allegiant and looks to JetBlue (forbes.com)
November 23, 2017
Allegiant Airlines and the Transport Workers Union say they have negotiated a tentative agreement for the first contract ever signed by the carrier’s 1,150 flight attendants.
Allegiant, a Las Vegas-based ultra-low-cost carrier, first offered scheduled service in 1998. TWU organized the flight attendants in 2010 and began contract talks in June 2011.
An initial tentative agreement was reached in the summer of 2016, a time when Allegiant, long known as fiercely anti-labor, reached agreements with both the TWU and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who had organized the pilots.
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