Angry Flight Attendants Strip
When five United Airlines flight attendants lost their pensions in May, they decided to show their anger—and a bit more—by posing for a 2006 calendar titled “Stewardesses Stripped (Of Their Pension).” The women, ages 55 to 64, appear in far less than their uniforms to get across their message that “no retirement fund is completely secure and there is a definite crisis in the pension guaranty system.”
“People are just so angry,” says Connie Baker (Ms. June and Ms. August), who organized the calendar project. Baker, 59, of Fountain Hills, Ariz., is one of 121,500 United workers and retirees whose pensions were slashed during the company’s bankruptcy proceedings, the biggest pension termination in history.
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