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Article: Northwest Airlines to lay off 1,400 flight attendants
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- September 21, 2005
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JOSHUA FREED, AP Business Writer
AP Worldstream
09-21-2005
Dateline: MINNEAPOLIS
Northwest Airlines Corp. said Wednesday it will lay off 1,400 flight attendants by January as it shrinks in bankruptcy, just months after it re-hired some of them.
The flight attendants union also said Northwest is pressing to use more locally hired, nonunion flight attendants on overseas flights as another way to save money _ a proposal the union said would result in the outsourcing of those jobs to cheaper labor markets overseas and which it will fight.
The layoffs will begin with 900 furloughs on Oct. 31, including 480 in Detroit, Northwest's largest hub, and 355 in Minneapolis. The remainder would come by ...