By Doug Cunningham

More than a thousand Teamster represented flight attendants at Comair are still waiting for bankruptcy judge Adlai Hardin to rule on the airline’s effort to destroy their union contracts. A ruling had been expected Monday but the day passed without one. Connie Slayback is President of Teamsters Local 513 in Kentucky. He says Delta, Comair’s parent company, wants to impoverish its flight attendants.

[Connie Slayback 1]: “They would like to slash our wages and our retirement contribution pension fund and pretty much put us in the poorhouse is what it amounts to. It’s not as though we’re asking for the moon. We all make very modest livings. We don’t live in big houses or drive fancy cars. But we can’t afford what they’re asking for. And what they’re asking for isn’t fair and equitable.”

So the Comair flight attendants are preparing to strike if their contracts are thrown out by the judge. But Slayback doesn’t think it’ll come to that.

[Slayback 2]: “My gut tells me that Comair has not proven its case to the bankruptcy case, that they’ve not been fair and equitable and I don’t believe that they’ve made a great case that they have. My gut tells me that the judge will not allow that motion. I believe that he’ll deny it.”