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Article: Northwest to lay off 1,400 flight attendants
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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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 January, according to a memo by a Northwest
vice president for ...