It's particularly devastating to the last 310 flight attendants laid off in 2001 after September 11, who were just called back to work Aug. 1, ... Now these people are being told they will be back on the street again. Northwest gave no thought to the fact that many of these folks left other jobs and careers to come back. Now they will have to look for work again.

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We're going to fight that vigorously. If the company were to have its way, we would be looking at losing literally thousands of jobs to overseas labour. This is something that we have not seen at any other airline. United (Airlines) in its worst days has never tried to do this.

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We're disappointed obviously. I think this goes to what we've been saying all along that this is the end result of executives' poor planning. Their plan is more focused on union busting than running an airline.

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We're much closer to settling today than yesterday. It's looking much more optimistic. We're hopeful to have a deal for the court on Wednesday.

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We're most disturbed by the company's issuing notices of furlough to people they just got done recalling, ... We think that it shows a callous disregard for these individuals and their lives.

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We're getting literally hundreds of calls about passengers frustrated with flight delays and taking it out on the flight attendants. We've asked the attendants to document each situation and forward onto our safety and health committee to investigate.

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[Northwest] may be able to handle a strike by one group, but there's no way it can handle a strike by two groups at the same time.

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