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Aug11
NWA Flight Attendants Rethinking Strike Possibility
Are the flight attendants at Northwest Airlines rethinking their strike options.  As the deadline for the strike draws near the union that represents the flight attendants has said they want to focus on security as their first priority. 

"Today, there is a security issue in this country, and we're going to stay focused on that," Mollie Reiley said after spending more than two hours in a security line with AFA attorney David Borer at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

NWA_logo555.gifReiley said the London terrorism plot and enhanced security at airports around the world have increased the stress on Northwest flight attendants.

Neither Reiley nor Borer would speculate on the possibility that the union might want to extend their Tuesday deadline in light of the new terror threat. If there were an extension, it would open the possibility of new bargaining talks between Northwest and the union.

Northwest flight attendants have been talking about engaging in sporadic strikes for the past few weeks, dubbing the program CHAOS, an acronym for Create Havoc Around Our System.

The idea would be to conduct strikes on a few flights to increase the union's leverage to get a better deal from Northwest.

But labor relations consultant Jerry Glass, a former US Airways executive, said flight attendants might want to delay the strategy because the airline industry is in a "time of crisis."

CHAOS "will just exacerbate a bad situation with respect to delays and passengers' being on edge and worried about catching flights," Glass said.

WCCO-TV Minneapolis-St. Paul

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