By Doug Cunningham

The Association of Flight Attendants – CWA is escalating its legal battle for the right to strike at Northwest Airlines. The union is petitioning the U.S. Court of Appeals for a full review of it’s three judge panel’s ruling upholding a injunction against a strike. The union is asserting its right to strike because Northwest arbitrarily threw out the union contract, violating the collective bargaining agreement. But the court decided Northwest’s action in bankruptcy was not a breach of the contract but an annulment of it and therefore Northwest could not a breach a contract that didn’t exist. The union calls that a “unique approach to the law”.