Flight Attendants Rally at White House

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Airline employees, rallying outside the White House, accused the Bush administration Tuesday of siding with airline managers who the attendants said are claiming financial hardship to deny their employees a decent living.

``We will strike when the first bankruptcy judge throws out a flight attendant contract,'' Patricia Friend, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, said at a rally by 200 airline workers at Lafayette Park across from the White House.

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``They're using bankruptcy to get leverage with unions and enforce concessions on the employees,'' she said. ``We work more hours to get less pay.''

Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Congress established a $15 billion airline bailout to compensate the carriers for losses caused by the emergency. The legislation also set up the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which compensated survivors or families of victims of the attacks on condition that they forgo lawsuits against airlines.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4673586,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704

[stepnw1f]

1. Mandate?

What was that you said idiot boy?

**flush**

[DulceDecorum]

6. Extending pResidential courtesy from one CEO to another

The president of an investment banking company has been charged
with assaulting a flight attendant after being refused alcoholic drinks and
then defecating on a service cart in the first-class cabin. The lawyer for
the executive, Gerard Finneran, said his client denies the charges.
Finneran, president of TCW Americas Development Inc., was arraigned
in federal court in Brooklyn Monday after the incident Friday on a United
Airlines flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to New York.
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~hansell/humor/gerard.finneran

(You reminded of this mandate when you flushed.)

[stepnw1f]

7. I Fail To See the Connection

I'm wondering if you misunderstood me.

[brentspeak]

2. I really would like to see more of these

Massive, daily (or at least weekly) protests in front of the White House. Thousands of people. No violence, just righteous anger.

[donheld]

4. I'm with you Brent

Lets storm the fort

[Quakerfriend]

3. Yes, You go girls and guys!!

They should also add a word or two about the administrations failure to properly protect them!!

[Ilsa]

5. My pilot friend who has always voted Republican

voted for Kerry because Bush is so hostile to unions. He felt like he was voting his job, period.

[Megahurtz]

8. With Bushitler in charge

all shit rolls downhill.

[struggle4progress]

9. kick

:kick: