US Airways flight attendants voted Tuesday to authorize a strike.
It's the first step that could eventually lead to them walking off the job -- although that won't happen during the busy thanksgiving travel weekend, and it most likely wouldn't happen during the Christmas travel season.
The flight attendants have been operating under the same contract they had before US Airways merged with America West back in 2005. The flight attendant groups still don't work together.
This vote does not mean attendants will be hitting the picket lines any time soon -- it just gives them the option to do so if they do not come up with an agreement.
Flight attendants hope today's strike vote will force the airline to negotiate with them.
"There's numerous sticking points but they all boil down to economics, whether it's wages, benefits, different packages," says Deborah Volpe, President, Association of Flight Attendants.
"They wanted to see an entire package that recognizes the contribution to the profits of the airline."
A spokesperson for US Airways told FOX 10: "We were very close to getting an agreement with our flight attendants in September and we applaud the union leadership and negotiating committee for reaching an agreement and working hard to ratify that agreement."
It's been a week since Amy and Samy Bouzaglo's bistro was featured on the FOX hit show. It showed them yelling at Chef Gordon Ramsay, at their customers, and even at their employees.
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Some of Arizona's top business experts say jobs and home prices are slowly rebounding, but the state has a long way to go and federal budget cuts aren't helping.
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U.S. airlines collected more than $6 billion in baggage and reservation change fees from passengers last year - the highest amount since the fees became common five years ago.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Louisiana-based meat packing company has expanded a recall of meat products because of possible bacterial contamination.
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