Northwest Baggage Handlers Approve Cuts
From Bloomberg News
Northwest Airlines Corp.’s baggage handlers accepted a new labor contract that would cut their pay 11.5% and eliminate jobs at the troubled carrier.
Sixty-two percent of the members of the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who voted approved the agreement. The vote came two days after flight attendants rejected similar concessions, threatening Northwest’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
Northwest, based in Eagan, Minn., is trying to trim annual labor spending by $1.4 billion.
