Northwest Airlines Comments on AFA Contract Vote

These sound like fightin' words to me. Let em' have it F/A's! They were disappointed? Please.........

Northwest Airlines Comments on AFA Contract Vote
Monday July 31, 5:39 pm ET

EAGAN, Minn., July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- Northwest Airlines (OTC: NWACQ - News) said today that it was disappointed that its flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), failed to approve the tentative contract agreement reached earlier this month between the company and the union.
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"The tentative agreement was a product of nearly around-the-clock negotiations involving substantial compromise on the part of both parties," said Mike Becker, senior vice president of human resources and labor relations.

"We reached a consensual agreement with the new union recently chosen by our flight attendants and had hoped that Northwest flight attendants would ratify the agreement."

On July 6, the National Mediation Board announced that Northwest flight attendants voted to have the AFA-CWA replace the Professional Flight Attendants Association (PFAA) as the flight attendants' bargaining organization.

Becker continued, "Notwithstanding the results of the flight attendants' contract vote, Northwest must continue to move forward with its restructuring efforts. As previously approved by the court, we now are implementing new contract terms and conditions for our flight attendants which are consistent with the judge's order and with the March 1 tentative contract agreement which was not ratified. This action will result in the required $195 million in annual savings."

In late June, Judge Allan L. Gropper of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York granted the airline's 1113(c) motion to reject its contract with flight attendants. The airline was given authorization to implement the terms of an earlier tentative agreement that it reached with PFAA in March.

Northwest has reached agreements on permanent wage and benefit reduction agreements with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), Aircraft Technical Support Association (ATSA), the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), and the Northwest Airlines Meteorologists Association (NAMA). Two rounds of salaried and management employee pay and benefit cuts have also been instituted and the needed aircraft maintenance employee labor cost savings have been achieved.

Since beginning its restructuring process in September of last year, Northwest has remained focused on its plan to realize $2.5 billion in annual business improvements in order to return the company to profitability on a sustained basis. The restructuring plan continues to be centered on three goals: resizing and optimization of the airline's fleet to better serve Northwest's markets; realizing competitive labor and non-labor costs; and restructuring and recapitalization of the airline's balance sheet.

Northwest Airlines is the world's fifth largest airline with hubs at Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, Tokyo and Amsterdam, and approximately 1,200 daily departures. Northwest is a member of SkyTeam, an airline alliance that offers customers one of the world's most extensive global networks. Northwest and its travel partners serve more than 900 cities in excess of 160 countries on six continents.

question if nwa would impose the contract how long would it be good for? And do thay need a signed contract before thay can come out of bk?

Well Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Northwest Airlines. Mr Mike Becker get over your disappointment and put the crack pipe down. The Flight Attendants are not going to vote for anything that is not fair. I would like to see you work under that TA for six to eight years. If i am going to be pimped it will not be by Douglass( I should be in jail) Steenland.

Bring in the replacement peanut slingers.

Frank, if you are a pilot for in my OLD hometown, sell now before winter 'cuz your gonna need to "buckle down". Show some respect.

I meant to add NWA in between "for" and "in". Guess I just can't bear to type those letters anymore!

Frank wrote:

Bring in the replacement peanut slingers.

Another typical sarcastic and profanely ludicrous comment. You should apply with NWA for a management position. They need a few more narrow minded overpaid individuals.

Frank wrote:

Bring in the replacement peanut slingers.

Don't you ever try the B.S. mentality of bringing in the replacement workers to scare the employees. That some people think they are going to "dictate" the entire employment venue of an employee, is pathetic. A company needs employees. The better accept that right off the bat. Now...whether they want employees that can comprehend the obvious right away, or one they may take 6 months or more to catch on......that's the question. Oh, and one that can at least speak english.

Just An Observer wrote:

<quoted text>Don't you ever try the B.S. mentality of bringing in the replacement workers to scare the employees. That some people think they are going to "dictate" the entire employment venue of an employee, is pathetic. A company needs employees. The better accept that right off the bat. Now...whether they want employees that can comprehend the obvious right away, or one they may take 6 months or more to catch on......that's the question. Oh, and one that can at least speak english.

Don't care to converse with them...just bring me the peanuts.

Frank wrote:

<quoted text> Don't care to converse with them...just bring me the peanuts.

Isn't your brain already full of enough of them?

Frank wrote:

<quoted text> Don't care to converse with them...just bring me the peanuts.

Honey, we haven't served peanuts for YEARS...get with the program!

off the fence wrote:

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Honey, we haven't served peanuts for YEARS...get with the program!

Well...that ain't exactly true. When I flew Business Class to Saipan last February...

NWARETCAPT wrote:

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Well...that ain't exactly true. When I flew Business Class to Saipan last February...

I’m sure fence-sitter does not have the seniority to get those routes. Hey, Korean Air (your Skyteam partner) has ice cream and fresh baked cookies on overseas flights. The cookies are still hot and soft when they hand them out. You always know when they are coming because the smell is like an alarm clock!

Southwest still has peanuts.

Robin Marks wrote:

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I’m sure fence-sitter does not have the seniority to get those routes. Hey, Korean Air (your Skyteam partner) has ice cream and fresh baked cookies on overseas flights. The cookies are still hot and soft when they hand them out. You always know when they are coming because the smell is like an alarm clock!
Southwest still has peanuts.

Robin.....how do you like your new name?

Just An Observer wrote:

<quoted text>Robin.....how do you like your new name?

It’s okay, why do you think I am trying to be sneaky? Actually, it’s not a name, it’s an activity. ;)

Robin Marks wrote:

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It’s okay, why do you think I am trying to be sneaky? Actually, it’s not a name, it’s an activity. ;)

Whatever works for ya!

Just An Observer wrote:

<quoted text>Don't you ever try the B.S. mentality of bringing in the replacement workers to scare the employees. That some people think they are going to "dictate" the entire employment venue of an employee, is pathetic. A company needs employees. The better accept that right off the bat. Now...whether they want employees that can comprehend the obvious right away, or one they may take 6 months or more to catch on......that's the question. Oh, and one that can at least speak english.

The F/A"s did not stand with our strikeing/locked out aircraft mechanics and now find themselves in the same situation??? Does their Union leaders not know of the term,"Solidarity." All employee groups should have and still can stand by our Union brothers and sisters of the Aircraft Mechanics ranks. The damn scab mechanics have got to go. We are next.

Barry wrote:

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The F/A"s did not stand with our strikeing/locked out aircraft mechanics and now find themselves in the same situation??? Does their Union leaders not know of the term,"Solidarity." All employee groups should have and still can stand by our Union brothers and sisters of the Aircraft Mechanics ranks. The damn scab mechanics have got to go. We are next.

Perhaps the F/A's have a new game plan! They're not stupid, and are very aware of what's at stake. However, you know company rhetoric----suicide walk, slicing their own throats. Who writes that stuff? I've been shopping a long time now, I've never come across that "suicide knife" yet.