Strike two!
Jun 7, 1999 | 12:18 pm
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Strike two!
The pilots are long over their strike and flying but the fight attendants and machinists are pushing hard to enter a 30 day cooling off period so that they can get on with their own strike asap!
Jun 10, 1999 | 11:58 am
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Fantastic! Perhaps NWA will also get some benefit from the impending TWA strike or even just from the threat!
Glad to see your around. Hope your meetings have been going well!
Any luck yet researching our old problem "Northwest or Northworst" posting?
Got a note by "snail" mail from NWA since the email address had been somehow corrupted by the addition of "24" after the .com. thus rendering it undeliverable! A Linda Deason apparently wrote to Erma Stevens at Worldperks telling her to "Please respond to the customer. Tx." She did. "Two lines...No further communication is required."
Thanks again for trying to help.
Glad to see your around. Hope your meetings have been going well!
Any luck yet researching our old problem "Northwest or Northworst" posting?
Got a note by "snail" mail from NWA since the email address had been somehow corrupted by the addition of "24" after the .com. thus rendering it undeliverable! A Linda Deason apparently wrote to Erma Stevens at Worldperks telling her to "Please respond to the customer. Tx." She did. "Two lines...No further communication is required."
Thanks again for trying to help.
Jun 10, 1999 | 12:06 pm
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STRIKE AVERTED!
Thursday June 10, 1999
Northwest, Attendants Reach Deal
By KARREN MILLS - AP Business Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Northwest Airlines and its flight attendants announced a tentative agreement on a five-year contract today, averting a possible strike against the nation's fourth largest airline.
``This is the agreement that our members sent us to negotiate,'' said Billie Davenport, president of Teamsters Local 2000. ``We are proud to recommend it to our brothers and sisters for ratification.''
A timetable for the ratification vote by some 11,000 flight attendants was still being worked out.
Doug Steenland, Northwest executive vice president, said the tentative agreement represents the importance of the flight attendants to the Eagan-based carrier.
Details of the agreement will not be released until materials have been distributed to the union members, the two sides said.
The airline and union representatives had resumed talks Tuesday in Washington. Pay and retirement were the key issues.
Flight attendants, who had been seeking a new contract for nearly three years, were seeking pay comparable to that at Delta Air Lines, whose flight attendants are considered the industry's best paid.
Attendants took pay cuts to help keep Northwest out of bankruptcy and were looking for raises and pensions.
The attendants had voted overwhelmingly last weekend to authorize a strike. On Wednesday, they held informational pickets in several cities.
Last September, a 15-day pilots strike shut down the airline and caused millions of dollars in losses.
Thursday June 10, 1999
Northwest, Attendants Reach Deal
By KARREN MILLS - AP Business Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Northwest Airlines and its flight attendants announced a tentative agreement on a five-year contract today, averting a possible strike against the nation's fourth largest airline.
``This is the agreement that our members sent us to negotiate,'' said Billie Davenport, president of Teamsters Local 2000. ``We are proud to recommend it to our brothers and sisters for ratification.''
A timetable for the ratification vote by some 11,000 flight attendants was still being worked out.
Doug Steenland, Northwest executive vice president, said the tentative agreement represents the importance of the flight attendants to the Eagan-based carrier.
Details of the agreement will not be released until materials have been distributed to the union members, the two sides said.
The airline and union representatives had resumed talks Tuesday in Washington. Pay and retirement were the key issues.
Flight attendants, who had been seeking a new contract for nearly three years, were seeking pay comparable to that at Delta Air Lines, whose flight attendants are considered the industry's best paid.
Attendants took pay cuts to help keep Northwest out of bankruptcy and were looking for raises and pensions.
The attendants had voted overwhelmingly last weekend to authorize a strike. On Wednesday, they held informational pickets in several cities.
Last September, a 15-day pilots strike shut down the airline and caused millions of dollars in losses.
Jun 10, 1999 | 10:14 pm
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THANKS MJW Super Great News!!!!!!
Going to Alaska for 6 weeks this summer and was NOT looking forward to a repeat of last year.
Got caught coming home from Alaska in the last strike in Sept. We traveled home on 4 different Airlines with 6 changes of planes. We had 2-50 lb boxes of frozen fish with us. Miracle of Miracles the fish get home with us just fine.
Time to restock to freezer!!!!
Going to Alaska for 6 weeks this summer and was NOT looking forward to a repeat of last year.
Got caught coming home from Alaska in the last strike in Sept. We traveled home on 4 different Airlines with 6 changes of planes. We had 2-50 lb boxes of frozen fish with us. Miracle of Miracles the fish get home with us just fine.
Time to restock to freezer!!!!