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Article: Flight attendants may change unions.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2005
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Byline: Jewel Gopwani
Sep. 26--The flight attendants at Northwest Airlines Inc. have an important choice to make in coming weeks.
Just as their employer is asking for massive wage and job cuts, there is a push among flight attendants to switch unions.
Some flight attendants are campaigning to leave the 2-year-old independent Professional Flight Attendants Association and join the Association of Flight Attendants , a decades-old union whose members and connections span the airline business .
"I don't think that our current union is prepared for the struggle that we have ahead of us," said David Barrow-West, a Northwest flight attendant ...