Catherwood LibraryILR School

Despite its position as the most profitable U.S. airline, and a history of relatively amicable labor relations, Southwest Airlines today became the most recent of the U.S. carriers to experience industrial unrest as flight attendants prepare to picket the carrier. According to the president of the flight attendant's union at Southwest, Thom McDaniel, forty off-duty flight attendant will today picket outside the airline's lead airport in Dallas to protest management's latest proposal in seven months of unsuccessful negotiations. The proposal calls for a 2.5 hour increase in the already ten to twelve hour workdays of the flight attendants---whose nine-year-old demands for a daily fifteen minute break have so far been met with continued stonewalling from management.