United Contract Negotiations Update

s16 September 2025

Our negotiating team and United Airlines management continued discussions for our seven collective bargaining agreements this past week in Chicago. We were joined by subcommittees for the Central Load Planners (CLP), who actively worked on their specific proposals.

Central Load Planners
For the CLP contract, we reached a tentative agreement on Article 1 (Qualifications, Positions and Vacancies) that better honors seniority when bidding Lead vacancies or Charter Desk work. We also reached two tentative agreements on Article 4 (Hours of Service & Overtime). A high priority in the CLP members’ survey was improving e ligibility to work overtime when members are on a DAT or floating holiday rather than on a vacation week—an improvement we successfully achieved. We also improved compensation for CLP members required to work mandatory overtime.

Passenger and Fleet Service
Negotiations for the Passenger Service and Fleet Service contracts continued to center on Article 4 issues, particularly outage relief. This was a key concern for our members in their proposals and surveys, second only to economics.

We are proud to say we FINALLY reached a tentative agreement that no longer allows the Company to place 100% of a station on outage relief and significantly improves the honoring of seniority, even when assigned to outage relief. This progress opened the door to discuss other Article 4 topics, including overtime and mandatory overtime.

Eliminating mandatory overtime industry-wide is not feasible due to weather and irregular operations. No Passenger Service or Fleet contract in the industry bars an airline from holding employees in emergencies. What we can do is hold management more accountable with stronger contract language to ensure that, when mandatory overtime is needed, it is administered properly—and that compensation is provided when it is not.

We have provided the Company with additional proposals and expect a response at our next session the week of October 6, when the Storekeeper and Security subcommittee will join us.

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In solidarity,

Your Negotiating Committee
Olu Ajetomobi
Joe Bartz
Jill Hazamy
Victor Hernandez
Barb Martin
Terry Stansbury
Faysal Silwany
Erik Stenberg
Sue Weisner

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