The National Mediation Board on Wednesday called Northwest Airlines and its flight attendants' union leaders to Washington for a meeting next week to discuss their labor conflict. The mediation board's action comes less than a week after U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero granted Northwest's request to bar flight attendants from striking the carrier. Northwest attendants have rejected two concessionary agreements.
See "U.S. mediation panel calls in attendants' union, NWA", Liz Fedor, Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 20, 2006