News | 30 Mar 2001 21:02 | Mary Kirby
<body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Flight attendants at Midwest Express Airlines are protesting what they say is the company’s refusal to move forward with contract talks.<u1:p></u1:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Represented by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), the carrier’s flight attendants will picket at Milwaukee General Mitchell International Airport and Omaha Eppley Field on 1 April.<u1:p></u1:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>“Instead of working toward a compromise on issues, the company is backpedaling, replacing its original proposals with weaker secondary proposals,” says the AFA. <u1:p></u1:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The union claims management intends to “drastically slashhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Midwest-Express-flight-attendants-plan-demonstration-249142/