NORTHWEST, UNIONS ON COLLISION COURSE REGION Edition

All eyes in the struggling airline industry are closely watching Northwest, particularly with respect to the pilots. If Northwest succeeds in cutting pilot pay and benefits while eliminating some job protections, other carriers likely would want to pursue similar changes. Pilots began a strike autho...

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Published inPittsburgh post-gazette (Pittsburgh, Pa. 1978)
Main Author Joel J. Smith and Nick Bunkley The Detroit News
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Pittsburgh, Pa Pittsburgh Post - Gazette 16.02.2006
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Summary:All eyes in the struggling airline industry are closely watching Northwest, particularly with respect to the pilots. If Northwest succeeds in cutting pilot pay and benefits while eliminating some job protections, other carriers likely would want to pursue similar changes. Pilots began a strike authorization vote Monday and will count ballots Feb. 28. Flight attendants also opened balloting Monday, but will count votes March 6. A strike by Northwest's 5,000 pilots or 8,500 flight attendants wouldn't take place until sometime in March, if at all. "You won't see a strike," predicted Michael Boyd, president of the Boyd Group, an Evergreen, Colo., aviation consulting group. "The people running Northwest and the pilots are way too smart for that. Cooler heads need to prevail, and that probably will happen. Will everybody be happy? Absolutely not."
ISSN:1068-624X