On November 6, TWU Local 540 overwhelmingly ratified a new four-year contract with Hawaiian Airlines that will provide increased pay and benefits as well as profit sharing for members and operational improvements for the company. Local 540 represents dispatchers at Hawaiian Airlines..

“We are please to have negotiated these improvements on behalf of our members at Hawaiian,” said Air Transport Division Director John Conley. “In these challenging times, it’s refreshing to negotiate with a management team that shares our vision and commitment, for improving the working conditions and standard of living of our members.”

Mark Dunkerley, Hawaiian’s president and CEO, commented, “This agreement is entirely consistent with the one overwhelmingly ratified by our flight attendants earlier this year, and with the proposals we have offered all of our union groups. Our agreements with the TWU and the AFA-CWA mean that we have now reached accord with two of the largest unions in the airline industry.”