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Article: NWA tells attendants price of rejection; In a letter to flight attendants, Northwest says a contract rejection will mean loss of jobs, severance and merger protection.(BUSINESS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 16, 2006
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Byline: Liz Fedor; Staff Writer
If Northwest Airlines flight attendants reject the concessionary contract on which they are now voting, management will seek to impose terms that would include the outsourcing of 30 percent of the carrier's international flying.
That would translate into the loss of 800 jobs.
The warning was carried in a letter sent on Friday to all Northwest flight attendants. The president of the flight attendants' union responded Monday by calling the letter blatant intimidation.
Job preservation was the top priority of the Professional Flight Attendants Association (PFAA) when that union's negotiators bargained with ...