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United,
pilots reach
settlement
CHICAGO (AP) — United
Airlines and its pilots reached a
tentative agreement Saturday in a
contract dispute that forced the
world’s largest airline to cancel or
delay thousands of flights.
The two sides met around-the-
clock over the past two days, guid
ed by the National Mediation
Board. The key issues remaining
in the talks were security and pay.
A spokesman for the pilots,
Herb Hunter would not provide
any details of the agreement, which
he said is retroactive to April 12.
United’s labor problems be
gan this spring when the contract
with its 10,000 pilots came up for
renewal.
Pilots began refusing to fly
overtime, which they are entitled to
do, and that caused chaos with
United’s already-tight schedule.
The pilots say the airline has long
failed to hire enough pilots to car
ry out its packed schedule.
In a statement, James Good
win, United's chief executive of
ficer, said he was pleased with
the agreement.
“Both sides worked hard in
complex negotiations to create an
industry-leading contract for pilots,
while providing a strong base for
the company’s future growth and
success,” he said.
United has canceled thou
sands of flights this summer and
had an abysmal on-time record.
United apologized in newspaper
ads and with a television com
mercial in which Goodwin says
the airline has failed in its com
mitment to customers.
Wildfires ablaze
Winds threaten the west
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Fire
fighters were on their guard Sunday
as more windy weather threatened to
worsen wildfires that already had
turned hundreds of thousands of
acres of forest to ash.
Wind already was blamed for cre
ating a firestorm in South Dakota’s
mountainous Black Hills.
Fire officials worried that the 30
mph wind forecast Sunday could
cause problems for some of the 10,000
people battling the 23 major wildfires
in the forests of western Montana.
“Today is sup
posed to be a big
day for wind,” said
Venetia Gempler
of the National In
teragency Fire
Center in Boise,
Idaho. “We are ex
pecting to have a
significant growth
in fires because of
this wind.”
Montana fires
burned an additional 13,000 acres
Saturday as blustery weather swept
through the region, but officials said
some of that was land within the
perimeters of fires that had not been
charred by the flames’ first pass.
“We did get some growth on the
fires, but nothing incredibly huge,”
said Connie Myers, an information
officer for a crew battling a group of
blazes that had blackened more than
260,000 acres in and around the Bit
terroot Valley.
That was not the case in western
South Dakota, where a fire in the
heart of the Black Hills National For
est, northwest of Custer, exploded
from 30,000 acres on Saturday to an
estimated 90,000 on Sunday.
The Forest Service said it ex
pected more “explosive fire behav
ior” Sunday.
Firefighters were forced off that
fire’s north side Saturday because the
wind created firestorm conditions.
Three outbuildings and a tractor were
destroyed in the sparsely settled re
gion and two homes were damaged,
officials reported.
The few people in the region
were urged to evacuate an area of
300 square miles, forest officials
said. Fire lines along the eastern
side of the blaze
were being
strengthened be
cause a cold
front moving
into the region
was expected to
bring northwest
erly wind.
There was a
possibility that
the wind could
help crews
working on a 110,000-acre range
fire in south-central Washington. It
had burned 16 structures, including
one home.
That fire, near Prosser, Wash., was
50 percent contained early Sunday
and the wind was expected to blow
out of the west, which “would be
blowing the fire back on itself,” said
Laura Vander Meer of the state
Emergency Operations Center.
Montana’s Gov. Marc Racicot said
Sunday that the federal government
shared some of the blame for the fires.
The fire danger, he said on “Fox
News Sunday,” was something “that
the administration knew about, that
all of us have known about for a long
period of time.”
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We did get some
growth on the
fires, but nothing
incredibly huge”
— Connie Myers
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Shipyard workers vote to strike
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A
union representing 4,800 workers at
shipmaker Bath Iron Works voted
Sunday to strike, shutting down
.production at one of the biggest
shipbuilders for the U.S. Navy.
The shipyard is one of Maine’s
largest private employers with 7,600
employees, producing Navy destroy
ers that cost about $900 million when
fully equipped. It is one of only two
shipyards that build destroyers for the
Navy, delivering about two each year.
Members of Local S6 of the Inter
national Association of Machinists
and Aerospace Workers were upset
over the company’s pay proposal and
proposed changes in work rules.
About 85 percent of the union
voted to go on strike when the con
tract expired at midnight. Angry
workers then piled up copies of the
company’s latest contract proposal
and set them on fire.
“You’ve got a corporation slurping
up military contracts', and you know
that those contracts are overcharged to
the taxpayer. These guys get the mon
ey, and they are not willing to share,”
said Don Snowdon, an electrician for
12 years at the shipyard.
We need to get
back to the table
as soon as possi
ble and we're pre
pared to do that”
— Sue Pierter
Bath Iron Works
spokeswoman
Company spokeswoman Sue
Pierter declined to comment on the
strike’s effect on the Navy.
“Certainly no one would want a
strike. The impact will be determined
by how long this lasts. We need to get
back to the table as soon as possible and
we’re prepared to do that,” she said.
The shipbuilder proposed a three-
year contract with wage increases of
4 percent this year, 3.5 percent next
year and 4 percent in 2002, plus a
$500 signing bonus.
The company said its proposal
would increase an average produc
tion worker’s wage and benefit pack
age from $41,000 to $48,000 a year.
Union negotiators had pushed
for raises of 8 percent the first year
and 7 percent in each of the follow
ing years.
But pay was not the main sticking
point for workers who fear that cross
training provisions would weaken
the value of the specialized work
force and lead to eventual layoffs.
The last strike against Bath Iron
Works was a 99-day walkout in
1985. Bath Iron Works is a subsidiary
of General Dynamics.
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