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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Mesaba: Pilots might stage sympathy strikes
Mesaba: Pilots might stage sympathy strikesIn StarTribune.com Business
The head of the Air Line Pilots Association International said Tuesday that his group not only will appeal the ruling that bars a strike at Mesaba Airlines, but will extend the labor conflict to other carriers if the appeal is successful. "We are confident in the end that the court system will not permit this to stand," ALPA President Duane Woerth told the Star Tribune. Woerth wouldn't specify which other pilot groups might be asked to back Mesaba workers through sympathy strikes in the event a walkout eventually is allowed. But the logical targets are Northwest Airlines, which provides all
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