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Article: Icahn seeks new flight attendant concessions; union retains top mediator-negotiator. (Carl Icahn, TWA chairman; Flight Attendants Union, Independent Federation of Flight Attendants; Theodore W. Kheel)
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- June 17, 1988
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ICAHN SEEKS NEW FLIGHT ATTENDANT CONCESSIONS;
UNION RETAINS TOP MEDIATOR/NEGOTIATOR
NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Two years after the Flight Attendant strike of 1986 Carl Icahn, Trans World Airlines chairman, has made a new proposal to the Flight Attendant Union, the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants (IFFA). The proposed pact, featuring no pay increase for five years and further provisions calculated to weaken the union, is seen by IFFA President Vicki Frankovich as a "vindictive demand."
The new Icahn proposal similarly fails to address the return of some 3,000 Flight Attendants still awaiting recall following the ...