Article: Minnesota Governor Wants Northwest Airlines Executives to Justify Bonuses.

By Casey Selix, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 28--Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Thursday he plans to chat with Northwest Airlines executives about whether they should take six-figure bonuses when 4,900 airline employees are losing their jobs.

"I don't see how they can justify it ... I don't think it's fair," Pawlenty told about 70 Northwest workers who gathered in Bloomington to learn about services from the state's dislocated-worker program.

"Our concerns aren't about a bail-out for the company, but for the workers who lost their jobs," the governor told the gathering, many of them mechanics ...

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