Pilots for Delta Air Lines ratified a new contract on Wednesday that will see their pay rise by 34% over the next four years and increase other perks and benefits.
voted to approve a new contract with significant pay raises and improved benefits, bringing to close negotiations that had been delayed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"This industry-leading contract is the direct result of the Delta pilots’ unity and resolve," Darren Hartmann, a pilot and union official who chairs the Delta Master Executive Council, said in a release. "Despite a two-year delay in negotiations due to COVID, we never lost sight of our goal to obtain significant across-the-board enhancements to our pilot working agreement."
Delta pilots had picketed in the spring and summer of 2022 to raise awareness of their negotiations with corporate leadership, and 99% of the pilots represented by the– Air Line Pilots Association, International – voted in October 2022 to authorize a strike, if necessary.
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