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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Tuesday, March 4, 1986
Flight attendants protest cuts
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — Trans World Airlines' flight attendants gave a Bronx cheer yesterday to Chairman Carl Icahn, who said a strike by the attendants could force him to break up the country's sixth largest airline
Members of the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants scheduled rallies in seven cities to protest contract concessions sought by icahn. The union is threatening to strike Friday.
About 150 attendants, some with children and many in uniform, gathered under gray skies at the Gateway Arch to criticize Icahn. They were supported by other labor officials, including Joe Bostic, player representative of the football team St. Louis Cardinals.
More than 300 people attended a similar rally in downtown Kansas CI.
ty, Mo. Other rallies were scheduled in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
At the rallies in St. Louis and Kansas City, union members derided Icahn's reported statement that flight attendants are not breadwinners.
"The unity of labor is number one," Ann Kalmanir, a union official, told cheerleading members in St. Louis. "We are together. We are breadwinners."
Many of the children at the rallies — and in St. Louis, a German shepard — wore posters that said, "My parent is a breadwinner."
In a broadcast interview in New York, Icahn said he would do what was necessary to ensure the airline's survival. But he added TWA was worth more dead than alive.
TWA's flight attendants have offered to accept a 15 percent wage cut,
but Icahn is seeking 22 percent and other concessions, including more working hours and more time away from home.
TWA and Ozark Airlines, which TWA announced plans to buy last week, both have their domestic flight hubs in St. Louis.
Jane Hefflinger, head of the attendants' union unit in Kansas City, said Icahn is seeking three times the amount of concessions from her union than from other unions. She said Icahn wants concessions from attendants of between $88 million and $110 million while only taking $100 million from pilots.
The attendants questioned how TWA could afford to buy Ozark while cutting employee wages.
Kalmanir said TWA could not put enough replacement flight attendants in the air to operate normally if there was a strike.
End of TWA might result from strikes
TWA Chairman Carl Icahn said yesterday that a successful strike by flight attendants could lead to the breakup of the airline, and the attendants responded with rallies nationwide to denounce contract concessions sought by the carrier.
United Press International
The International Federation of Flight Attendants, representing TWA's 7,000 stewardess and stewardesses, set a Friday strike deadline unless Trans World Airlines withdrew its demands for economic concessions.
In an interview broadcast on "The CBS Morning News," Icahn denied he was trying to break the union.
"What we are doing in this is a question of survival," he said. "Let me put it this way, if the flight attendants go on strike, what we must do is win."
He said TWA could survive a strike by flight attendants. But if the company could not win the concessions, he would consider breaking up the airline.
Union members coordinated rallies in seven cities yesterday to protest the sought-after concessions. The union had offered to accept a 15 percent wage cut, but Icahn wants a 22 percent pay reduction and other concessions, including longer work hours and more travel time.
Icahn had said he would do what was necessary to insure the airline's survival, but emphasized TWA was now worth "more dead than alive" because its equipment, routes and hub systems are valuable.
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