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Labor/management disputes continued to rock the airline industry this weekend, as talks between the Air Line Pilots Association and US Airways collapsed over job-security issues. The president of the ALPA's US Airways unit has said that the union made multiple concessions to the company on the issue of increasing the use of small regional jets, but called off talks when they found out that management negotiators were not even authorized to address job-security issues. The union was willing to allow the company to increase the use of cheaper regional jets from seventy to 315, but wants job protection for 287 pilots with twelve-plus years of experience that the company currently plans to furlough.