Delta Air Lines pilots intensified their push for improved pay by insisting they will strike if they do not get a new contract.
With 96% of members participating in an Air Line Pilots Association union vote, 99% of Delta pilots “authorized union leaders to call a strike, if necessary, to achieve a new contractual agreement,” the union said.
Delta pilots say they are working under an outdated contract from 2016. ALPA says that on-again, off-again contract talks began more than three years ago,…