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United Airlines hopes to complete a new business plan within two months, including a decision on whether to terminate its pension plans, the company told employees Wednesday. The statement came as part of a "pension primer" letting employees know what...

United Airlines' plan to walk away from its pension obligations stirred a new round of concern on Friday about the nation's troubled pension guarantee system. Officials with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the federal agency that pays the pensions of...

A month before United Airlines said it would stop funding its pension plans, it quietly removed three top executives charged with protecting employees' retirement interests and named itself the fiduciary for the plans, creating what a government...

United Airlines fired a major shot Friday in the battle with its workers over cost cuts, announcing that it would cease making payments to employee pension funds as long as it remains in bankruptcy. The airline signaled the move last week when it...

Reaching out to workers on Tuesday, United Airlines Chief Executive Glenn Tilton acknowledged that the carrier's decision to stop funding its pension plans has created "significant anxiety." Tilton reiterated that the move does not affect pension...

United Airlines has told its pilots, flight attendants and other union workers it must terminate their pensions, cut pay and eliminate jobs to enable the struggling airline to emerge from bankruptcy. The Elk Grove Township-based carrier hopes to have the...

When officials of the federal agency that protects worker pension plans meet Thursday with United Airlines executives, they'll likely be seeking the answer to a fundamental question: "Is United planning to stick Uncle Sam with the entire $7.5 billion tab...

More than 100 lawmakers have signed a letter being sent to United Airlines' chief in opposition to its plan to terminate its pension plans to survive bankruptcy. "While we understand that the airline faces difficult challenges in emerging from...

United Airlines' flight attendants union said Tuesday that it will do everything it can in court to oust the carrier's top executives. "We condemn United Airlines senior management for devising a business plan which, in addition to the termination of...

United Airlines said Thursday that its pension plans are in dramatically better financial shape than estimated and insisted that the pain of terminating them would be far less than initially feared for retirees, employees and the federal government. In a...