DENVER—The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is suing to block a concessions deal reached between Frontier Airlines and its pilots before the Teamsters began representing them.
The union filed a lawsuit challenging the deal Wednesday in Denver.
It alleges that Frontier and its parent company, Republic Airways, interfered in an election to choose a union to represent all Republic pilots. In exchange, the Teamsters say the old union, the Frontier Airlines Pilots Association, agreed to the concessions.
In June, Frontier pilots agreed to the deal as part of a $120 million restructuring. Later that month, Republic pilots picked the Teamsters to represent them, rejecting Frontier’s union and two others.
Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuck told The Denver Post ( ) that any allegation that the airline interfered in the union election “is patently not true.”
———
Information from: The Denver Post,
