Southwest Airlines has reached a tentative deal with a union that represents nearly 18,000 employees.
The Transport Workers Union Local 555 represents the ramp, operations, provisioning, and cargo agents for Southwest. That group will vote on the tentative deal reached by the Dallas-based airline and the union's negotiating committee.
The union members rejected the previous tentative deal with Southwest last fall. The new proposed contract would provide most of those employees with pay raises of more than eighteen percent.
“This tentative agreement provides much-needed raises and quality-of-life benefits for our hardworking members at airports across the country,” said TWU International Executive Vice President Alex Garcia.
“Our goal has always been to fight for a contract that rewards our members with the highest increases in wages, bonuses and 401k match in the industry and this tentative agreement gets us there without question,” said TWU Local 555 President Randy Barnes. “We’ve worked tirelessly to get to this point because we recognized how important it was for our members receive these improvements quickly.”
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