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Article: ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANTS VOTE TO STRIKE
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- June 11, 1993
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WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Flight attendants at Alaska Airlines, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), AFL-CIO, voted today by more than 96 percent to authorize a strike or other work action against the airline if an agreement between the company and AFA is not reached by the 30-day cooling-off period deadline at 12:01 a.m. PDT, on June 19. The vote was conducted by confidential mail ballot.
The strike vote cumulates three years of bargaining with the company, one and a half of which have been under the supervision of the National Mediation Board (NMB). On May 20, 1993, the NMB released AFA and Alaska into a 30-day cooling-off period when ...