After he and Jake Brace, the chief financial officer, held a meeting with union leaders in late April, representatives from the small dispatchers' and meteorologists' unions said they would work with the company.
To secure these contracts, smaller dispatchers submit low bids, but they are unable to secure a steady supply of taxis as licence-holders generally prefer to be attached to the incumbent.
Only Delta's pilots and a small group of dispatchers and flight instructors are unionized.
United's pilots and two small unions, representing dispatchers and meteorologists, said on Tuesday that their members had approved immediate double-digit cuts.
The Hartford office of the AAA was in full battle mode, a small army of dispatchers working the phones, answering pleas from stranded motorists.
I ordered something, and it was extremely so small," Agosto told the 911 dispatcher, according to audio posted by K5 News, before the 911 dispatcher interrupted him with a request to call back on the "non-emergency line" and provided him with the number.
She began working as a maid, earning about 500 yuan a month, but she now earns double that as a dispatcher for a small cleaning company.
Linda Willis, the dispatcher for Admiral Truck Services, a small flatbed-trucking company in Waller, Tex., near Houston, said that Internet loadboards like Getloaded.com had been a lifesaver for her company.
"Seventy-two, seventy-two," Ms. Turner says, raising her voice as she speaks into the worn Motorola microphone in Commodore's grubby dispatcher booth, in a small, drab storefront with overhanging wires and dusty counters on Avenue D in East Flatbush.
Divided into four six-minute segments, Dispatch tells the story of a particularly long, particularly terrible night for one police dispatcher in an anonymous American small town.
