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Southwest Pilots Are Inching Closer to a Strike
A Southwest Airlines Co. plane takes off at Chicago Midway International Airport.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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Southwest Airlines Co.’s pilots’ union has asked the US National Mediation Board to end its oversight of contract negotiations with the carrier, an action that would move the union one step closer to a potential strike.
Further mediation oversight “will likely not result in any additional agreements” between the union and the company, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association said in a letter to the agency Thursday. Talks began more than three years ago and were joined by a mediator in September 2022, the union said, but a number of important issues remain unresolved.