By Doug Cunningham

Ted Ludwig, President of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association Local 33, says the public shouldn't fly Northwest Airlines as long as the strike - now in its fourth day - continues. Ludwig says Northwest is NOT flying a full schedule and he says some rank and file members of other Northwest unions are tired of working with scabs.

[Ted Ludwig 1] : "That seems to be a pretty substantial amount now. There seems to be a growing concern about having to work with scabs every day."

Ludwig says Northwest forced this strike.

[Ludwig 2] : "Their almost terroristic bargaining where they just came in and they told us we have to give this much or there's not gonna be a deal. The amount they wanted us to give we just could not physically or monetarily give without the extinction of our union."
Ludwig says if AMFA had accepted the hardline concessions demanded by Northwest it would have been committing suicide for the union.