{"id":95785290,"date":"2011-01-05T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/continental-reaches-agreement-with-flight-attendants\/"},"modified":"2011-01-05T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T09:33:00","slug":"continental-reaches-agreement-with-flight-attendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/continental-reaches-agreement-with-flight-attendants\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental Reaches Agreement With Flight Attendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/1\/Continental.JPG\" alt=\"Continental Airlines has reached a tentative agreement with 9,500 \nflight attendants (Image: Wikimedia)\" title=\"Continental Airlines has reached a tentative agreement with \n9,500 flight attendants (Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Continental Airlines and union leaders reached a tentative deal Tuesday <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nContinental Airlines and union leaders representing 9,500 flight attendants have reached a tentative 20-month interim agreement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe deal struck on Tuesday is expected to go to a union vote in the coming weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFlight attendants had previously rejected a deal in October. Details of the new contract include a 2.5% base pay increase that will be retroactive to January 1, with another 2.5% increase due next September.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAdditional highlights include sick leave enhancements, profit sharing, and a no-furlough clause that will run the length of the agreement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnion President Joey Guider said the negotiating committee &quot;unanimously recommends membership ratification.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nContinental merged with United Airlines in October, with each carrier continuing flight operations as separate units of the combined company.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/7366241.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chron <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Continental Airlines and union leaders reached a tentative deal Tuesday &nbsp; Continental Airlines and union leaders representing 9,500 flight attendants have reached a tentative 20-month interim agreement. &nbsp; The deal struck on Tuesday is expected to go to a union vote in the coming weeks. &nbsp; Flight attendants had previously rejected a deal in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95785290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}