Southwest Airlines Pilots Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize Strike Ahead of Summer Travel Season
Southwest Airlines pilots are set to go on strike ahead of what is expected to be a busy summer travel season.
The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) announced the move on May 11, noting that 99 percent of union members who took part in a vote on the matter opted to authorize a strike.
Turnout was around 98 percent, the union, which represents more than 10,000 pilots of Southwest Airlines, said.
Initially, a vote on strikes was scheduled to run through the end of May, but the union said that Southwest Airlines pilots had voted overwhelmingly to make “their voices heard about the operational disasters and the lack of progress after three-plus years of stagnant negotiations.”…