USA Today coverage of strike:

^ Strike doesn't ground Northwest

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By Dan Reed, USA TODAY
Its schedule mostly intact and its strikers drawing no help from other unions, Northwest (NWAC) management emerged from the weekend in a better position than its union mechanics who walked off the job early Saturday.
No carrier has ever done so well in operating through a strike as Northwest has over the weekend. Management triggered a plan 18 months in the making involving replacement workers and new agreements with companies ranging from aircraft maintenance firms to bus companies to help it manage through a strike. (Story: Northwest flies undaunted)

The strike isn't following the normal pattern. Striking pilots virtually shut down United for a month in 1985 and Northwest for 15 days in 1998. Flight attendants forced American to ground 90% of its flights over a five-day period in 1993 with a strike. The mechanics didn't even have to strike against Northwest in 1999 to bring its operations to a near-halt. They achieved that with a work slowdown.

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