Northwest gets no-strike injunction

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. bankruptcy judge Friday granted a Northwest Airlines request to block flight attendants from striking, CNN reported.

The Minnesota-based carrier told U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero of New York that the random strikes envisioned by union leaders could force the bankrupt airline into liquidation.

The Justice Department supported Northwest, arguing that a strike would violate the Railway Labor Act.

Friday's decision comes a week after Judge Allan L. Gropper denied the airline's request for an injunction that would have prevented the 7,300 Northwest flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, from striking.

The union had threatened random, unannounced strikes of the airline's 1,200 daily flights.