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United flight attendants take off in protest
May 14, 2005
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO -- While some United Airlines employees are using placards and pamphlets to protest the loss of their pensions, a group of flight attendants is taking a more risque tack -- showing some skin to publicize their plight.
The five women, ranging in age from 55 to 64, posed for a 2006 calendar that depicts them in various states of undress in front of a vintage plane, on a park bench and on a plane's wing, among other locations. Reflecting a mix of humor and anger, it was released to coincide with a bankruptcy court's approval this week of United's plan to terminate $9.8 billion in pension obligations.
While United is never named nor its airplanes shown, every photograph in "Stewardesses Stripped (Of Their Pension?)" is accompanied by a zinger related to the record pension default by the Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based airline.
"Coffee, tea, or me without a pension?" reads one. "Marry me, fly free -- but don't expect anything from my pension," says another. And the cover shot: "Are your butts covered? We thought ours were too."
Retired flight attendant Connie Baker, the project's creator and one of its subjects, says it was inspired by the 2003 film "Calendar Girls" about the real-life story of a group of older British women who posed naked for a calendar to raise charity money.
"I thought if these English women can do this, we flight attendants can definitely do it," said Baker, 59, who lives near Phoenix. http://www.stewsstripped.com/
May 14, 2005
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO -- While some United Airlines employees are using placards and pamphlets to protest the loss of their pensions, a group of flight attendants is taking a more risque tack -- showing some skin to publicize their plight.
The five women, ranging in age from 55 to 64, posed for a 2006 calendar that depicts them in various states of undress in front of a vintage plane, on a park bench and on a plane's wing, among other locations. Reflecting a mix of humor and anger, it was released to coincide with a bankruptcy court's approval this week of United's plan to terminate $9.8 billion in pension obligations.
While United is never named nor its airplanes shown, every photograph in "Stewardesses Stripped (Of Their Pension?)" is accompanied by a zinger related to the record pension default by the Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based airline.
"Coffee, tea, or me without a pension?" reads one. "Marry me, fly free -- but don't expect anything from my pension," says another. And the cover shot: "Are your butts covered? We thought ours were too."
Retired flight attendant Connie Baker, the project's creator and one of its subjects, says it was inspired by the 2003 film "Calendar Girls" about the real-life story of a group of older British women who posed naked for a calendar to raise charity money.
"I thought if these English women can do this, we flight attendants can definitely do it," said Baker, 59, who lives near Phoenix. http://www.stewsstripped.com/
