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☆ Third-party candidates are the worrisome wild card amid Biden-Trump rematch in Wisconsin
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Jeff Zeleny | Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In 2020, Biden won the state by fewer than 21,000 votes, with no Green Party candidates on the ballot. Four years earlier, Trump carried Wisconsin by nearly 23,000 votes, with the Green Party’s Jill Stein earning more than 30,000 voters. When third-party candidates were added to the mix, both Biden and Trump saw their numbers fall by about 10 percentage points. “It really brings forward the idea that the two big parties just hand us candidates to choose from,” Anderson said. But Democrats have long viewed Stein’s campaign as one of the decisive factors in delivering Trump the state of Wisconsin and the presidency.

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☆ Pilots don't want to be promoted to captains anymore, and it's becoming a huge problem for airlines
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Despite the lure of a bigger paycheck, multiple United Airlines pilots, analysts, and union officials told Reuters in a report published July 19 that pilots were shunning captaincies due to unpredictable flying schedules. And United Airlines is not alone in facing this problem. Over 7,000 pilots declined to take up captaincies at American Airlines, Reuters reported citing data from the airline's union. The number of pilots declining promotions had doubled in the past seven years, Dennis Tajer, a spokesperson for the American Airlines pilot union, told the news outlet. United Airlines, American Airlines, and their respective pilot unions did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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☆ Focus: United Airlines grapples with pilots avoiding the captain's chair
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Rajesh Kumar Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

One industry official dubbed it the "no one wants to be a junior captain syndrome." Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for American's pilots union, said the number of pilots declining promotions has at least doubled in the past seven years. At United, bids for 978 captain vacancies, or about 50% of the vacancies posted, have gone unfilled in the past year, United pilot union data shows. A captain's pay is better, but junior pilots, currently, face greater risks of being subjected to unpredictable flying schedules, more on-call duty and assignments on short notice. A failure to substantially improve work rules was a major reason why United pilots overwhelmingly rejected a deal last year.

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