Flight attendants at Northwest Airlines Corp. tentatively settled on pay cuts Thursday, giving them a shot at a $182 million share of the airline's reorganization in exchange for the millions more they have given up. The union said the bankruptcy claim could be worth $15,000 to $18,000 per flight attendant. That could serve as an incentive for the rank-and-file to approve the new contract. Flight attendants rejected tentative agreements twice last year -- with 80 percent of the vote in June, and with 55 percent of the vote in July. The union's Master Executive Council was meeting Thursday to decide whether to send the agreement out for a vote by the rank-and-file.
See "Northwest Airlines flight attendants reach tentative agreement", Joshua Freed, Chicago Tribune, April 25, 2007