I wanted to update you about an important development involving United Airlines and the Paycheck Support Program (PSP) instituted by the federal government last year.

The PSP program was meant to ensure that recalled employees continued to receive the wage rates they earned before they were laid off due to the pandemic. However, as many of you experienced first-hand, United Airlines did not pay leads recalled as technicians, or technicians recalled as GSEs, the wages they had earned before being laid off. In the IBT’s view, this resulted in thousands of dollars of lost pay for hundreds of United employees. Because of this, the IBT Airline Division has been trying to draw federal attention to this matter to address this problem.