Northwest to lay off 1,400 flight attendants

From: Charleston Gazette | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Joshua Freed | Copyright information

MINNEAPOLIS - Northwest Airlines Corp. said Wednesday it will lay off 1,400 flight attendants by January as it shrinks in bankruptcy, just months after it re-hired some of them.

The flight attendants union also said Northwest is pressing to use more locally hired, nonunion flight attendants on overseas flights as another way to save money - a proposal the union said would result in the outsourcing of those jobs to cheaper labor markets overseas and which it will fight.

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