Flight Attendants Reach Tentative Agreement on $195 Million In Concessions

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Workers Independent News

Flight Attendants Reach Tentative Agreement on $195 Million In Concessions

By Doug Cunningham

Hobbled by court rulings that let Northwest Airlines throw out union contracts and prevent the union from striking, the Association of Flight Attendants CWA has reached a tentative agreement with Northwest giving the airline the huge concessions it was after. AFA-CWA’s Master Executive Council Vice-President Andy Wisbach.

: “It's still a deal that represents $195 million of concessions to the company. We were able to get some movement on some non-economic items - I understand some scheduling issues and things like that. But as far as the economic items, there was no change on that."

Northwest flight attendants have twice rejected agreements that included the $195 million in concessions. That represents nearly a 40 percent cut in wages and benefits. Wisbacher says he has no sense of how they’ll vote this time. He says the U.S. legal system and the National Mediation Board have failed to protect the interests of workers in this case.

: “The American worker has been failed not only by the bankruptcy court, but by the National Mediation Board, which has refused to release us into a cooling off period so that we could use the leverage of the right to strike at the bargaining table."

Read more: http://www.laborradio.org/node/5798

[Robbien]

1. You can't strike and your boss doesn't have to honor your contract

Tell me that this is not what defines a wage slave.

The workers are giving up huge concessions knowing that the executives are bringing home hundreds of millions in annual bonuses.

[kcass1954]

2. Headline next month - NW Air CEO gets huge bonus for cutting costs.

Greedy bastards.

[SoCalDem]

4. Hahahah GMTA

look at the next post :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

3. Next headline: Mr. XXX of NW airlines accepts $195M retirement package "

:rofl: silly little people :)

[DemoTex]

5. History: My airline pilot retirement was terminated 3/31/2003.

Six months later, the asshole CEO who terminated my retirement .. Dave Seigelman .. was awarded $10 MILLION!


FUCK THEM!