1rocco From United States, joined Dec 2003, 119 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 820 times:
"Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., who helped Northwest restructure its finances in the early 1990s, appears to be concerned. "There's an undercurrent throughout this whole negotiation of bad feelings," Oberstar said, because of Northwest's "heavy-handed" approach toward union workers, instead of asking for shared sacrifices."
Let's hope the judge puts a firecracker in NWA shorts to get them back to the bargaining table. I know AFA has been ready to negotiate from the beginning. Let's see some shared sacrifices instead of that heavy handed approach NWA is so good at..
Bobnwa From United States, joined Dec 2000, 4710 posts, RR: 12 Reply 3, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 736 times:
Quoting 1rocco (Reply 1): Let's hope the judge puts a firecracker in NWA shorts to get them back to the bargaining table. I know AFA has been ready to negotiate from the beginning. Let's see some shared sacrifices instead of that heavy handed approach NWA is so good at..
Do you mean let the union negotators come to a third agreement the members will vote down. Do the flight attendants think they should take less a % cut than all the other employee groups?
TVNWZ From United States, joined Feb 2006, 1561 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 553 times:
Quoting Bobnwa (Reply 3): Do you mean let the union negotators come to a third agreement the members will vote down. Do the flight attendants think they should take less a % cut than all the other employee groups?
Maybe he means they need to shop for yet a third union to come to an agreement the membership can turn down.
TVNWZ From United States, joined Feb 2006, 1561 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 548 times:
Quoting 1rocco (Reply 1): I know AFA has been ready to negotiate from the beginning
On further review....apparently not...
No talks planned between NWA, flight attendants union
Both sides await ruling from judge on legality of strikes
August 30, 2006
Email this Print this BY JEWEL GOPWANI
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
The flight attendants union at Northwest Airlines told a federal judge Wednesday that further negotiations with the airline would be pointless.
In a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero the Association of Flight Attendants, said:
While AFA remains committed to reaching a negotiated settlement with the company, our informal discussions with Northwest over the past few days reveal that meaningful negotiations are not possible at this juncture.
Northwest declined to immediately disclose what it had reported to the Marrero, who last week asked both sides to tell him if more talks could resolve the labor dispute.
After the union released its letter, the airline said in a statement: The lines of communication remain open between Northwest Airlines and the AFA. We remain committed to negotiating a consensual agreement with our flight attendants and hope to accomplish that goal in the near future. We are available to resume negotiations.
As travelers head into a busy Labor Day weekend, both sides wait for Marrero to rule on whether random, unannounced strikes by the attendants union would violate federal labor laws.
Flight attendants are protesting wage and benefit cuts the airline imposed on workers July 31, after they rejected a second concessionary contract proposal totaling $195 million in annual cuts. Attendants have threatened to strike with work stoppages, which Northwest is trying to block with a court ruling.
Contact Jewel Gopwani at 313-223-4550 or jgopwani@freepress.com
Slider From United States, joined Feb 2004, 5303 posts, RR: 47 Reply 6, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 449 times:
Quoting 1rocco (Reply 1): "Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., who helped Northwest restructure its finances in the early 1990s, appears to be concerned.
He should be.
He's on the Transportation Committee, and used a great deal of political equity to help bail NW out back in the 90s....that Iron Range investment and Duluth mx facility are proof of that. He has a lot politically to lose.
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