Aa Article In Business Week

[desertfox]

Interesting article on efforts to improve labor issues at AA. Rome wasnt built in a day, but it is an improvment from previous roads....

http://yahoo.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnfl..._4771_db042.htm

 

[jimntx]

Well, rah, rah, YEA TEAM!

I will be more amenable to trust Mr. Arpey--who, I believe, believes he is trying to do things differently--when the people under him stop the old tactics.

Collaborating does not include...

Union: Flying 14 hour days without food or sleep is neither humane nor safe.

Company: OK, we don't deny that. We have put a price of $50,000,000 on sleep and $40,000,000 on time to eat (Providing food is out of the question). What are you willing to give up in return?

Union: But you only gave us credit for $3,000 for no sleep and $49.95 for meals during RPA negotiations.

Company: Well, that was then. This is now.

Signed,
"Skeptakul" in Dallas

 

[WingNaPrayer]

Nice fluff piece.

Unfortunately, what AA management says, and what they do, are remarkably two totally opposite things.

Whatever Arpey thinks he's doing to quell management/labor dissention, the word isn't trickling down to middle and lower management positions, where playing with employees everyday lives, and dangling their jobs over their heads is a day to day game that's played to avoid the boredom.

AA is STILL too management heavy. Until that changes "Shared Sacrifice" is going to remain on the lips of every employee.

I wonder if this op-ed was written before, or after AMR went back on their word to labor yet again and named Arpey both CEO and Chairman . . . something they promised just a year ago after ousting Car-tay they would never do again!

Trust everyone . . . but brand your cattle!

 

[Wretched Wrench]

Money talks. Arpey has to talk very loud to be heard over what the concessions have already told us.

Happy Memorial Day, tomorrow.

 

[Winglet]

Talk is cheap, Talk doesn't cut it anymore. Walk the walk . . . . or shutup.

It's called integrity.