Associated Press | United Airlines is offering to bring its
flight attendants up to the pay scale of Continental Airlines workers in
exchange for changes in work rules.

A letter, from a United executive to the head of the flight attendant
union, suggests that some senior flight attendants would get raises of
more than 10 percent if they were brought up to the pay of those at
Continental.

United says it proposed the idea last year. The letter was sent Saturday and released Monday.

It says negotiations are “seemingly headed down the wrong path.”

Negotiations for a new contract began a year ago Tuesday. United flight attendants plan to picket at 15 airports to protest the lack of a new agreement.