Mediation & Negotiation · Weekly Report
Week Ending 2026.03.13
The week ending 2026.03.13 was a consolidation week rather than a breakout week. The strongest independent public signal remained the March 7 reporting that both United and its flight attendants were close to a revised tentative agreement after the early-March mediation block, but CrewSignal did not identify a same-week company filing, National Mediation Board process change, or fresh third-party business report confirming that the package had actually been completed by March 13.
The case still looks late-stage, but unfinished. The practical question shifted from whether momentum existed to whether both sides could preserve it through a quieter week and carry it into the next Washington bargaining block later in March.
The March 7 third-party reporting mattered because it captured a rare point of public convergence: both sides sounded close enough to make a revised TA plausible. But the week that followed did not produce a published company memo, a federal filing, or a public term sheet. That gap between optimism and documentation is the core signal for this reporting week.
Accordingly, CrewSignal reads 2026.03.13 as a hold-and-confirm week. United did not appear to fall backward, but the public record did not yet justify upgrading the case from “close” to “done.”
No additional notable third-party, company, or NMB references were identified for this week.