Up to the Minute (CBS) - 1993-11-22

Name: Up to the Minute (CBS) - 1993-11-22
Uploaded: 2023-07-08
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Uploaded: 2023-07-08

Duration: PT2794S

Read a transcript preview of “Up to the Minute (CBS) - 1993-11-22” from malgent, uploaded on 2023-07-08.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] Straight Ahead no planes just Trains and

[0:03] Automobiles for thousands of traveling

[0:06] Americans This Thanksgiving

[0:08] did Thai trunks

[0:11] [Music]

[0:17] [Music]

[0:24] good morning from CBS news in New York

[0:26] this is up to the minute I'm Troy

[0:27] Roberts and I'm Cheryl Atkinson in the

[0:29] news this morning day five of the

[0:31] American Airline flight attendants

[0:33] strike and thousands of people will be

[0:34] thankful if they ever make it to their

[0:36] holiday destinations the airline now

[0:38] says only about a third of its flights

[0:40] will get off the ground this week

[0:41] despite that Grim statistic the company

[0:43] claims it will not cave in to the flight

[0:45] attendant demands

[0:48] with the sole exception of our

[0:50] competitors this strike is a lose lose

[0:54] and lose again proposition for everyone

[0:57] American Airlines CEO Robert Crandall

[1:00] says the strike is costing his company

[1:02] 10 million dollars a day but he warns

[1:05] there will be plenty of hardship to go

[1:07] around with permanent job losses for

[1:09] both Union and non-union employees

[1:16] Sunday the flight attendance Union

[1:17] called on President Clinton to invoke a

[1:19] federal law providing for binding

[1:21] arbitration I do not think a

[1:24] presidential emergency board is the

[1:26] right answer

[1:27] instead I suggest you suspend your

[1:30] strike which will put our valued

[1:32] customers back on our airplanes this is

[1:34] a substantial move towards settling this

[1:37] strike

[1:38] we were Again rebuffed by the company

[1:40] that would rather incur millions of

[1:42] dollars worth of losses than negotiate

[1:45] it follows a pattern of disrespect for

[1:48] AAL passengers stockholders

[1:51] and flight attendants that began