Northwest management wastes good will (what's left of it) and money over purple ribbons

Northwest Airlines management has announced that they will tell flight attendants to remove the optional purple ribbon portion of our newly designed union insignia. We have asserted that we believe the contract language is clear and that we are contractually entitled to wear our “union insignia” -- in whatever form we decide to fashion it. Of course, we have handled this minor contractual dispute over a small purple ribbon through the normal grievance process, and not by calling the airport police, as management did last week in Detroit.

-From the Association of Flight Attendants

Northwest management is working hard to impress their new masters in Atlanta as they set out to do everything that they can to make sure that flight attendants have no say in their future and are left without representation in the new "Premier Global Airline". The reality is that managements petty actions prove to the work group the exact reasons we need a union.
I'd like to take a second and personally thank the inflight managers that are making this their mission as they continue to motivate the work force to take steps ensuring our future organizing success!

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