"After months of talks broke off in Washington just before midnight Friday, union spokesman Jim Young said the mechanics would rather see the airline go into bankruptcy than agree to Northwest's terms. "

Sorry if I'm late to th thread and this has already been discussed but how damn rude. These people don't care two hoots about the livelihoods of the 30,000 remaining NW employees and imho NW should keep using these replacement workers and fire the strikers. People with that attitude are not to be trusted.

To those who refuse to fly NW because of this, more fool you.