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Eagan-based Mesaba Airlines reached contract agreements with two of its unions over the weekend.  The regional carrier's pilots and flight attendants will soon get to decide whether to approve the negotiated contracts.  A bankruptcy judge had given Mesaba the right to impose labor contracts on workers without the workers' approval, but the airline chose to keep negotiating.

Mesaba employs more than 3,000 workers and serves more than 100 cities as a Northwest Airlink affiliate. 

The airline still has not reached agreement with its mechanics, though negotiations continue.  Minnesota Public Radio's Steven John talked to University of Minnesota Industrial Relations Professor John Remington about what leverage the unions have left.

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Mesaba reached agreement with negotiator for its pilots and flight attendants unions over the weekend, but is still bargaining with mechanics.  A judge's ruling that the bankrupt regional airline can impose contracts on workers put all the unions at a disadvantage.

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