While Parker wasn't there the management team from USAIR met with the TWU around a year and a half ago. The showed us a bunch of films showing how happy their workforce was to be working at bottom of the industry wages, and showed us how some guy whose next set of new wheels probably would have been a walker was given a Mustang, the video showed us how old their workforce was, I don't think I saw one person who had hair where it wasn't grey. At this meeting we challenged them as far as why should we support them taking over, after all they treat the workers they already have like crap. Even back then they were stonewalling their mechanics, still are. Bottom of the industry wages, crappy Vacations, Holidays. They insisted that they could not pay what larger carriers paid because they weren't big enough, that once they got bigger they would pay wages like our peers get, yet now they are bigger than any other carrier and they still wont give the IAM a deal that would indicate that we can look forward to them being true to their words.
No doubt Parker will tell us we need to be patient, but they sure as hell aren't ones to lead by example. The only saving grace is that maybe them dumping the stock will start a panic on Wall Street and drive the price down so we get more shares.
