CINCINNATI (AFX) - Delta Air Lines Inc. subsidiary Comair and the union representing its 970 flight attendants ended three days of negotiations this week without an agreement on contract concessions that the regional airline says it needs to keep operating.
The latest round of negotiations began Tuesday and talks on Thursday continued late into the night.
Neither side would comment on whether any progress had been made.
Comair spokeswoman Kate Marx said that the company was working with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on scheduling additional negotiating sessions.
Union spokeswoman Noa Oren said she was told that no further negotiations have been scheduled and that the union was waiting to hear from the company on the union's latest proposal.
Marx said she had no information about any specific proposals under discussion.
Comair has said it needs $8.9 million in wage and other cuts from the flight attendants as part of a plan to cut $42 million in annual costs.
Flight attendants have said the concessions would cut much deeper into their wages, benefits and work rules than the concessions demanded of Comair's pilots and mechanics. The pilots and mechanics have agreed to concessions, but their deals are contingent on an agreement being reached with the flight attendants.
The flight attendants have given their union authority to call a strike if Comair, based across the Ohio River from Cincinnati in Erlanger, Ky., invalidates their contract and imposes new terms.
Negotiations broke off in April, but resumed after a federal bankruptcy judge refused to allow the company to reject the current flight attendant's contract so that it could impose the wage and other cuts. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Adlai Hardin ordered both sides to resume talks.
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