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Thursday, August 10, 2006

NWA says strike could force it into liquidation

NWA says strike could force it into liquidation
In StarTribune.com Business
Northwest Airlines said a strike by flight attendants could force the company into liquidation and asked a federal bankruptcy judge to bar a walkout. "If in fact the flight attendants were to strike a flight in late August, we could sustain that," Julie Hagen Showers, Northwest's vice president of labor relations, testified Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York. "But they also refer to shutting down a hub for a week. That is the type of thing we can't sustain." Showers said Northwest "has not finalized" a contingency plan in the event of a strike. The fifth-biggest U.S. airline ask

 



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