Nationwide flight attendant walkout threatened

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04321/412660.stm

The national president of the flight attendants union is threatening a nationwide strike against all airlines if any labor contracts are abrogated by a bankruptcy judge.

Both United Airlines and US Airways have asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court to impose a series of concessions if consensual cost-cutting deals can not be reached soon.

"Airline management needs to understand that there will be serious consequences if they persist in their attacks on our contracts," said Pat Friend, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents attendants at 26 airlines, including United and US Airways. Leaders of the union are meeting in Pittsburgh.

All told, AFA represents seven bankrupt carriers.

[LynzM]

1. Cool....

Just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas... it's a long drive to Indiana with a 2-year-old, but I hope that they are not forced to take cuts and such...

[Florida_Geek]

2. Break up and sell United

they do not want to pay pensions. They want to void contracts... But why oh way does Southwest make money......

[colonel odis]

3. speaking of southwest, i believe they donated heavily to the bush campaign

i love 'em as much as anyone, but you won't see me on one of their planes again.

[siliconefreak]

4. Southwest

I believe they did contribute a lot to the Bush campaign. The strange thing is that I heard Ralph Nader recently talk about how wonderful Southwest is, and that they treat both their passengers and employees better than any other airline. :shrug:

[colonel odis]

5. i don't know about the employees part, but i can vouch for

the passengers part.

i've flown southwest for years and found them to be the most accommodating, pleasant, regular-folks airline i've ever flown with.

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate topic--Please continue discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x994901