http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-re...s/s_200457.html
quoted from the link above:
"Marick Masters, a business professor at the University of Pittsburgh who is writing an academic paper about US Airways' labor relations, said he believes that the unions, in spite of recent protestations, will eventually cooperate -- but that their concessions won't be enough to save the nation's fifth largest airline from extinction. "
I like the use of the word cooperate. It reminds me of that bit that Cheech and Chong did where they were torturing an old guy and repeatedly telling him, "Old man, you vill sign zee papers!" I also think that the use of the adverb "eventually" reveals Masters' awareness that cooperation, if even possible, will require the workforce to be beaten down to a point of near total loss of self-worth.
And what does this say about his (Is Marick a he?) faith in U's management? That after 3 rounds of cost-cutting, U's East Coast franchise, a travelling public, and this additional cost-cutting round yielding over a billion dollars a year in reduced expenses........that it still won't be enough to save the ocmpany.
While it is just completely frustrating to watch one incompetent CEO after another display an inability to give this company focus and to get the house in order, I am beginning to think that maybe it's just not possible. Recent attempts at marketing that can best be described as sophomoric (amatuerish?) and this bizarre infatuation with replacing people with the internet and kiosks tell me that this isn't the team that can make it happen.
Oh well, I guess we'll see what happens with the tight schedule of June, August, and September (contracts in place) concept. June is closing rapidly so if negotiations are going to be completed there needs to be some rapid work done over the next 5 days. That way the workforce can be educated during July and voting can take place in August. Could even an optimist think this might actually happen?
I do have good memories of the short time I spent with U, and I am still in CLT primarily because I may be recalled. But at this point it doesn't look likely that I would ever be recalled and looking less likely every day that I would take the job if I was recalled.
So for all of us on the sidelines, let's watch and see what happens. For those of you on the inside, hang in there and remember that perspective tells us you are the beach head where our society is meeting it's future.
jm
quoted from the link above:
"Marick Masters, a business professor at the University of Pittsburgh who is writing an academic paper about US Airways' labor relations, said he believes that the unions, in spite of recent protestations, will eventually cooperate -- but that their concessions won't be enough to save the nation's fifth largest airline from extinction. "
I like the use of the word cooperate. It reminds me of that bit that Cheech and Chong did where they were torturing an old guy and repeatedly telling him, "Old man, you vill sign zee papers!" I also think that the use of the adverb "eventually" reveals Masters' awareness that cooperation, if even possible, will require the workforce to be beaten down to a point of near total loss of self-worth.
And what does this say about his (Is Marick a he?) faith in U's management? That after 3 rounds of cost-cutting, U's East Coast franchise, a travelling public, and this additional cost-cutting round yielding over a billion dollars a year in reduced expenses........that it still won't be enough to save the ocmpany.
While it is just completely frustrating to watch one incompetent CEO after another display an inability to give this company focus and to get the house in order, I am beginning to think that maybe it's just not possible. Recent attempts at marketing that can best be described as sophomoric (amatuerish?) and this bizarre infatuation with replacing people with the internet and kiosks tell me that this isn't the team that can make it happen.
Oh well, I guess we'll see what happens with the tight schedule of June, August, and September (contracts in place) concept. June is closing rapidly so if negotiations are going to be completed there needs to be some rapid work done over the next 5 days. That way the workforce can be educated during July and voting can take place in August. Could even an optimist think this might actually happen?
I do have good memories of the short time I spent with U, and I am still in CLT primarily because I may be recalled. But at this point it doesn't look likely that I would ever be recalled and looking less likely every day that I would take the job if I was recalled.
So for all of us on the sidelines, let's watch and see what happens. For those of you on the inside, hang in there and remember that perspective tells us you are the beach head where our society is meeting it's future.
jm
