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On Tuesday the Air Line Pilots Association announced that its 8,000 members at United Airlines voted to accept a temporary pay cut of twenty-nine percent, and the Professional Airline Flight Control Association and Transport Workers Union announced that their 180 and 40 members, respectively, at United had agreed to thirteen percent pay cuts. With the 22,000 members of the Association of Flight Attendants employed by United set to vote today on whether to accept temporary pay cuts of up to nine percent, the International Association of Machinist may soon be the only union at United not to agree to temporary pay cuts as the airline seeks to meet the conditions for receiving permanent the full amount of qualified loans negotiated with four lenders (see WIT for Dec. 10, 2002). A decision is expected on Friday on United's request that a federal bankruptcy judge impose a thirteen percent pay cut on the 37,000 IAM members who work at United, but the union has refused to ask its members for concessions until the airline discloses information on its financial status to prove the need for pay cuts---a request that has run up against what the head of the pilots unions has described as United's post-bankruptcy uncooperativeness.