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Byline: KRISTEN LEIGH PAINTER; STAFF WRITER More than 100 members of Delta Air LinesÆ pilots union picketed outside Minneapolis-St. Paul International AirportÆs front doors Friday morning in an attempt to [...]

Byline: KRISTEN LEIGH PAINTER; STAFF WRITER Sun Country Airlines and its pilots have a new contract after five years of start-and-stop negotiations. With a gleaming, one-year-old 737 aircraft as their [...]

Byline: DAVID PHELPS; STAFF WRITER Sun Country Airlines and its pilots union made it official Thursday that the two parties have reached a tentative contract agreement after five years of [...]

Byline: DAVID PHELPS; STAFF WRITER After months of intense deliberations, Sun Country Airlines and the union representing its 250 pilots have reached a tentative contract agreement, sources said Saturday. Terms [...]

Byline: DAVID PHELPS; STAFF WRITER Contract discussions between Sun Country Airlines and its pilots union have turned tense. In a statement Thursday night, the head of Sun CountryÆs Air Line [...]

Byline: DAVID PHELPS; STAFF WRITER Pilots for Sun Country Airlines, who have been working under terms of an old contract for five years, have voted to authorize a strike if [...]

Byline: DAVID PHELPS; STAFF WRITER Pilots at Pinnacle Airlines have approved a new contract that includes a 9 percent pay cut and seniority concessions, it was announced Tuesday. The Air [...]

Byline: DAVID PHELPS; STAFF WRITER Pilots for Sun Country Airlines will conduct informational picketing outside Terminal 2 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Wednesday to protest what they say is [...]

Northwest Airlines might create a new commuter line to fly some of its smaller jets, a Mini-Me that would operate with lower pilot pay, more flexible work rules and new [...]

Northwest Airlines told its pilots union this week that it now wants $358 million in annual cost reductions, 11 percent more than its prior proposal, and an amount that the [...]

The threat of bankruptcy has intensified for Northwest Airlines, and its pilots union reacted Thursday by saying it is ready to agree to new wage concessions for its 5,700 members. [...]

Even as Northwest Airlines mechanics walk their picket lines, the head of the pilots union has told the Star Tribune that his members are gearing up for a second round [...]

Northwest Airlines started using Champion Air to do some of its flying Wednesday, acknowledging that it's experiencing some operational problems ahead of its Aug. 19 strike deadline with its mechanics [...]

U.S. airlines are expected to lose about $5 billion this year. Yet the head of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) said at least some of the so-called Big Six [...]

Pilots union leaders at Northwest Airlines have labeled the company's stock offer as 'grossly inadequate,' and they criticized management for delaying efforts to negotiate a new contract by the fall. [...]

Pilots at Northwest Airlines want their $200 million in annual labor savings to come primarily through pay cuts rather than changes in scheduling, vacations or other work rules, a pilots [...]

The chairman of the Northwest Airlines pilots union said Wednesday that he favors cutting pilot labor costs by $200 million a year, but he expects Northwest's managers to take cuts [...]

Thirteen months ago, Northwest Airlines CEO Richard Anderson declared that the carrier's long-term health depended on cutting its labor costs by $950 million a year. On Tuesday, pilots union leaders [...]

Mesaba Airlines pilots will get pay raises ranging from 5.1 to 26.7 percent under a contract agreement reached early Sunday morning. The majority of first officers, who fly Saab turboprops [...]

Two and a half years of contract negotiations between Mesaba Airlines and its pilots ended in a nondescript hotel conference room littered with empty pop cans, food wrappers, disabled computer [...]

Mesaba Airlines and its pilots union said early this morning that they have reached a tentative contract agreement for the regional airline's 844 pilots. The airline and the Air Line [...]

Mesaba Airlines and the union representing its pilots continued talking into the early-morning hours today in hopes of averting a strike that would leave seven Minnesota cities without air service [...]

Todd Glodek lay in bed Thursday night, contemplating what might happen on Friday. His wife asked: 'Well, are you nervous?' Glodek, a Mesaba Airlines pilot for nearly 10 years, sighed. [...]

Nine days before a strike deadline, the pilots union at Mesaba Airlines sued the company Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis for failing to deposit pilot contributions in 401(k) [...]

As pilots union leaders at Northwest Airlines develop proposals to reduce pilot labor costs, the union's chairman said he remains opposed to the concessionary package Northwest management unveiled last winter. [...]

The Northwest Airlines pilots union decided Friday to draft a proposal by March that would cut pilots' compensation. The move by the Northwest branch of the Air Line Pilots Association [...]

A strike deadline for Mesaba Airlines pilots will be set by the National Mediation Board after pilots union leaders voted unanimously Monday to reject the board's offer to provide binding [...]

The National Mediation Board on Friday declared contract talks between Mesaba Airlines and its pilots union at an impasse, and the board urged the parties to accept binding arbitration to [...]

The chairman of the Northwest Airlines' pilots' union strongly castigated Northwest management Monday for signaling that it may terminate a flying contract with Mesaba Airlines while Mesaba pilots are at [...]

The chairman of the Northwest Airlines pilots union said Tuesday that he does not expect the company to extract wage concessions from any of the airline's unions by the end [...]

The pilots' union at Northwest Airlines has suggested a number of changes to its labor contract that would save the embattled airline about $45 million a year. In a letter [...]

Mesaba Airlines pilots turned up the heat on management Monday by picketing at airports in the Twin Cities, Detroit and Memphis. The pilots and Minneapolis-based Mesaba have been in contract [...]

The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) sued Mesaba Airlines on Monday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis and asked the court to order the company to bargain in good faith [...]

The pilots union at Northwest Airlines said Wednesday that it will develop a proposal to cut pilot labor costs but that it also will ask the airline to give pilots [...]

Northwest Airlines pilots convened Monday in Brainerd to start developing their response to the company's sweeping proposal to cut pilot costs by 37 percent. Leaders of the Air Line Pilots [...]

Northwest Airlines gained a crucial political ally Thursday when the pilots union offered conditional support for the airline's attempt to contribute Pinnacle Airlines stock to its pension plans. Pinnacle is [...]

Northwest Airlines executives have asked pilots' union leaders to meet with them about a labor cost restructuring plan, but the company declined to provide any details Wednesday. Will Holman, a [...]

Northwest Airlines moved one step closer Friday to implementing a marketing agreement that gives its passengers access to Delta Air Lines routes. Pilots for Eagan-based Northwest approved a pact Friday [...]

To Brett Holtz, Dave Stanek and Jeff Goeschel, flying was a lifelong goal. They each spent thousands of dollars and 15 years or more in training so that one day [...]

The homeland-security legislation signed by President Bush will directly affect airline passengers because it allows pilots to carry guns in cockpits. Pilots from Northwest Airlines and other major carriers will [...]

Minneapolis-based Champion Air, which began negotiations with its pilots in early 1999, reached a tentative agreement with them on Friday. Terms of the agreement were not released in the joint [...]

RSEC: + Contract negotiations that were set to begin this month for pilots at Northwest Airlines have been delayed by mutual agreement until July, when the airline industry is expected [...]

RSEC: + Among the messages union leaders from Northwest Airlines gave to Minnesota's U.S. senators on Saturday was this: Help those who get laid off seek financial assistance, possible job [...]

A senior mediator at the National Mediation Board who oversaw 1998 contract talks between Northwest Airlines and the International Association of Machinists is expected to join Northwest's payroll June 1 [...]

The spokesman for striking pilots at Northwest Airlines in 1998 will take a leave of absence from his union job to serve as press secretary for Democrat Mike Ciresi's U.S. [...]

The Northwest Airlines unit of the Air Line Pilots Association nominated Northwest Capt. Michael Ristow as its representative to Northwest's board of directors Thursday, which would make him the second [...]

Duane Woerth on Wednesday became the first Northwest Airlines pilot to be elected president of the international Air Line Pilots Association, the union for 49,000 pilots at about 50 carriers [...]

After taking pause for Labor Day, the contestants in the nation's most significant ongoing labor dispute will resume discussions through a mediator in Minneapolis on Tuesday. On Sunday, the National [...]

Northwest Airlines said Thursday that it will call a temporary cease-fire in its war of words with the striking Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), suspending its 'advocacy advertising.' The move [...]

Pilots who were supposed to spend a breezy, sunny Saturday on their own time - or in their planes - instead participated in the first full day of picketing against [...]