The Southwest Airlines pilots union is calling for a strike authorization vote in May in the wake of the Dallas-based carrier’s epic holiday meltdown.
Union president Casey Murray described it as a “historic action” that follows the Christmastime fiasco and an “utter lack of meaningful progress on a contract negotiation, with scheduling work rules and information technology asks in particular, that has been ongoing for more than three years.”
“It’s scheduling,” Murray said. “It is their inability to understand how they got here and what they need to do to correct it.”
