A former Northwest 757-351 departs Atlanta in 2010 wearing its new Delta colors. Photo: Mark Plumley - OPShots.net
Bloomberg — Delta Air Lines Inc. flight attendants who worked for Northwest Airlines Corp. before its 2008 acquisition lost a bid for an order to force Delta to immediately align their compensation with peers who already worked for the carrier.In a lawsuit filed in March, the flight attendants claimed Delta withheld higher profit-sharing checks from more than 7,500 pre-merger Northwest flight attendants based solely upon their prior union membership.U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz in Minneapolis today denied the flight attendants’ request for a preliminary order pending final resolution of the case. In the same 37-page ruling, he also rejected the airline’s bid for dismissal.“If the court were to order Delta to grant pay raises and a larger profit-sharing distribution to plaintiffs, and Delta were later to prevail in this litigation, Delta would be unlikely to be able to recoup its losses,” Schiltz said.
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