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Will New Labor Deals Bring Budget Blues to Meetings?

MeetingsNet

As with recent hotel-labor agreements around the country plus a new contract for UPS workers, fresh contracts for more than 45,000 airline pilots may well affect costs around business events. The compensation and benefits for American pilots will be more than $9 billion across the four-year contract.

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Strikes Begin at Several Meeting Hotels in SoCal

MeetingsNet

The reason: an expired labor contract for about 15,000 Local 11 workers across 65 hotels. On the flip side, the hotel-management group has proposed wage hikes of 2.5 dollars an hour in the first 12 months and another 6.25 dollars per hour spread across four years.

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Travel Insurance: Coverage, API Integration and Major Providers Explored

AltexSoft Travel

billion in 2022, and by 2027 it is expected to grow up to $7.74 Still, many things depend on the price and additional benefits or exceptions of the proposed offer. We have selected for you some major travel insurance providers and GDSs that have API-integration to see what they propose. and rental car damage coverage.