Company Watch - Northwest Airlines.Northwest attendants consider changing unions. Flight attendants at Northwest Airlines are considering switching unions. They are currently represented by the Professional Flight Attendants Association The Professional Flight Attendants Association (PFAA) was an independent union which represented the approximately 10,000 flight attendants employed by Northwest Airlines in North America. but have discussed switching to the Association of Flight Attendants The Association of Flight Attendants (commonly known as AFA) is a union representing flight attendants in the United States. AFA represents 55,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines, making it the world's largest flight attendant union. . Separately, the workers will next month begin voting on a new contract proposal that will lower wages. Apr 26, 2006 Northwest pilots drop recall effort: Pilots at Northwest Airlines have stopped an effort to recall the chairman of their union. Northwest pilots are voting now on a new contract that would lower their pay. Apr 26, 2006 Northwest pilot pay would fall short of peer pilots' contract. Northwest Airlines pilots may not ratify ratify v. to confirm and adopt the act of another even though it was not approved beforehand. Example: An employee for Holsinger's Hardware orders carpentry equipment from Phillips Screws and Nails although the employee was not authorized to buy anything. a contract proposal because they would be paid about 10% less than Delta Air Lines pilots would under their tentative tentative, adj not final or definite, such as an experimental or clinical finding that has not been validated. contract, one analyst said. Before the carriers entered bankruptcy bankruptcy, in law, settlement of the liabilities of a person or organization wholly or partially unable to meet financial obligations. The purposes are to distribute, through a court-appointed receiver, the bankrupt's assets equitably among creditors and, in most , Northwest pilots made 2% less than their counterparts at Delta. Northwest pilots are voting on the contract now. Apr 25, 2006 |
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