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Would you like to learn more about how collective bargaining agreements in the airline industry are negotiated?

The Airline Division, in collaboration with the Teamsters Education Department, are pleased to announce we will be holding Railway Labor Act (RLA) collective bargaining training sessions to educate members on how their contracts are negotiated under the RLA. The training sessions will be held on March 17, 19, and 20.

The Teamsters National Negotiating Committee for United Airlines met last week in Denver for another round of negotiations.

The week began with the committee reviewing updated economic proposals with our economists. The committee continued to evaluate this proposal keeping the priorities members have made clear throughout this process in mind, including: industry leading pay, a shortened wage progression, and changes to CARP language.

We’ve received several questions from members about the “No Tax on Overtime” provision included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that was passed last year — specifically, why airline workers are not covered by it.

The new law created a tax deduction that allows eligible hourly workers to deduct up to $12,500 ($25,000 for joint filers) of overtime pay from their taxable income. However, the provision only applies to overtime as defined under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a nearly century-old federal law that does not govern overtime for most transportation workers.