UAL avoids some mechanic furloughs after union talks
Posted December 30, 2008 10:00 pm
Chicago-based United Airlines says it will need to furlough fewer mechanics than it previously thought after talks with their union, the Teamsters.
In a message to United workers last week, the nation's third-largest airline said the changes will allow it to keep some maintenance work at New York-LaGuardia. United previously said it would close the maintenance facility there around Jan. 11.
Maintenance work in Newark and Philadelphia will still shift to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as planned. The airline didn't say how many furloughs had been avoided.
The Teamsters had met with United earlier this month to see if it could reduce the furloughs, which are part of some 7,000 companywide job reductions the airline is making.
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