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Article: Northwest flight attendants reject Teamsters for new union.
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- Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2003
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Byline: Martin J. Moylan
Northwest Airlines' flight attendants have tossed out the Teamsters and embraced the upstart Professional Flight Attendants Association as their union.
The new union received 4,857 votes to the Teamsters' 3,916 in a telephone vote of union members conducted over the past few weeks.
The results sparked a celebration among the dozen or so PFAA leaders who gathered at their Bloomington, Minn., headquarters Thursday. "We won!" they exclaimed as interim vice president Jose Arturo Ibarra announced the results.
The change in unions for the second-largest labor group at Northwest comes as the Eagan, Minn.-based airline ...