Teamsters Members Conduct Informational Picketing

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mechanics for Continental Airlines on Tuesday will engage in informational picketing at the airline's major hubs in Newark, Cleveland, Orlando, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. The mechanics are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

The Teamsters mechanics will pass out literature to the flying public explaining the importance of maintenance work and their complaints with Continental (NYSE: CAL).

The Teamsters and Continental management have been bargaining for more than a year to renew the collective bargaining agreement covering more than 3,600 mechanics.

Negotiations stalled after the company refused to budge from its initial economic proposal in September. Teamsters mechanics are upset that they have been without a raise for seven years. The company has made permanent pay cuts that were instituted as an emergency cost-saving measure to avoid bankruptcy in 2005.

A federal mediator appointed by the National Mediation Board will oversee negotiations starting in January. If mediated negotiations do not result in an agreement, the NMB may ultimately allow the mechanics to exercise self help.

Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million hardworking men and women in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

SOURCE International Brotherhood of Teamsters

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