Midwest Airlines Pressing Hard For Pilot Concessions Using Bankruptcy Threat

Omaha Steve

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Thu Jul-24-08 07:00 PM
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Midwest Airlines Pressing Hard For Pilot Concessions Using Bankruptcy Threat

http://www.laborradio.org/node/9067

By Doug Cunningham

Midwest Airlines is pressuring pilots for concessions threatening to declare bankruptcy if the pilots union doesn�t give the airline what it wants. The union says the concessions are drastic. Midwest has set a Friday deadline for a concessions agreement it says it needs to avoid a bankruptcy filing. Cuts are being imposed on flight attendants as well. Midwest is owned by a private equity consortium headed by TPG Capital.

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goddess40

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Thu Jul-24-08 07:07 PM
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1. I'm flying midwest this Sunday and next Friday

I hope nothing happens until I get back home.

I doubt the cuts need to be so drastic and I'd sure like to know how much money has been funneled out of the top of the corporation over the last few years?

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stray cat

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Thu Jul-24-08 07:08 PM
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2. Is it a threat if its the truth?

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