Southwest Airlines came to a contract deal with the 170-member union that represents workers that clean airplanes, after the workers overwhelmingly rejected a contract this summer. It’s one of several lower-profile deals that Dallas-based Southwest is trying to get squared away, although the company has struggled to find success with labor groups such as customer service workers, flight dispatchers and aircraft cleaners. Southwest has some of the toughest standoffs with groups closer to the company’s minimum wage scale of $17 an hour, such as customer service workers and appearance technicians. The union for aircraft cleaners said they believe this proposal addresses the shortfalls in the deal that was offered and rejected on July 1. Southwest executives have said that staffing has been one of the airlines’ biggest challenges this year.

Source: thestar September 12, 2022 00:10 UTC