There is no point in saving Northwest Airlines if a significant number of our members lose their jobs.
We feel that we can get a better settlement in negotiations voluntarily with Northwest management than we can get through the bankruptcy court,
Ocean State Job Lot is a godsend to us.
If we strike, the company will be liquidated.
We've been trying to stay out of bankruptcy for three years now.
He was a hardworking man. He volunteered. Pleasant Valley has a soup kitchen on Thursday. He worked every Thursday. He'd help out with Malta. He used to come out with us even. But he wouldn't give up the drinking, so we had to ask him to stop coming out with us.
I think we can avoid bankruptcy. But people are going to have to step up to the plate and deal with the realities of the financial situation.
Our goal is not to strike, but we will retain all legal self-help options if management forces our hand.
Management's arrogant and excessive demands are unacceptable and are putting Northwest's future in serious jeopardy.
We continue to meet with Northwest management in an effort to reach a consensual agreement, but the outcome will be decided by management's actions at the negotiating table. Our goal is not to strike, but we will retain all legal self-help options if management forces our hand.
We're willing to reach a consensual agreement that satisfies Northwest's need to be competitive. But Northwest is trying to bust the union. They're trying to undo decades of collective bargaining.
We assume that discussions may occur among the remaining airlines in every possible combination.
There is only so much blood that you can squeeze out of a rock.
Every time (Northwest negotiators) get at the table and they think they have an advantage, they want to gut the contract.
We will not allow management's hired guns to use the bankruptcy process to take away essential job protections and outsource jobs we have offered to perform on a cost-competitive basis.
We're going to want to minimize pay cuts and minimize layoffs.
(Bell) had good answers, but its too early to say if I'll vote for him.
At this point, it is incumbent upon Northwest management to not squander our significant sacrifices, but to intelligently pursue a course that enables us to emerge from bankruptcy as a proud and profitable airline.
Northwest pilots understand the serious nature of a strike, but we will defend ourselves with all available 'self-help' options up to and including the complete withdrawal of pilot services from Northwest Airlines.
Northwest has always bargained hard, but ALPA has always bargained hard. We don't intend to gut the contract now.
Northwest employees should not pick up an inordinate amount of the fuel costs.
Thirty days is a very short period of time,
It's a sad day for Northwest. A lot of us have given decades of our lives to this airline. This is not where you want to see it end up. Now, here we are. It's a tragedy.
It's a corporate shell game of transferring assets and franchise value to a new company.
It's not in the best interest of Northwest Airlines to operate in this type of environment long-term.
That is not where we need to be, ... We're looking at other ways to satisfy their financial concerns without destroying our contract. ... We would like to get a deal but we will we will not do a bad deal in the interest of timeliness. It has to satisfy the concerns of our members.
Executive compensation is an obscenity that is thrust upon this entire society.