Fellow Employee Support Poll Results

goingboeing

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Look at the results of this poll and you can see why unionism is in big trouble.
The USA management is who went to the BK judge to ask for the abolishment of the retirement plan.[not the employees who called in sick!]
The poll indicates that the employees are turned against the wrong people.You should be madder than hell at the management for stealing your standard of living and not your fellow employees.
A house divided against itself cannot stand and the poll indicates a division within the union ranks.You employees turning against your fellow brothers and sisters is going to bring the house down.

The company should not give sick time if they expect the employees not to use it.
The people who called in sick were just using one of their remaining benefits.
 
Unfortunately, we in America have cultivated a new worker philosophy. Instead of:

"an injury to one, is an injury to all",

it has become:

"an injury to one, makes him a nobody, so ignore him and let him die of his wound".

And so we shall.
 
goingboeing said:
Look at the results of this poll and you can see why unionism is in big trouble.
The USA management is who went to the BK judge to ask for the abolishment of the retirement plan.[not the employees who called in sick!]
The poll indicates that the employees are turned against the wrong people.You should be madder than hell at the management for stealing your standard of living and not your fellow employees.
A house divided against itself cannot stand and the poll indicates a division within the union ranks.You employees turning against your fellow brothers and sisters is going to bring the house down.

The company should not give sick time if they expect the employees not to use it.
The people who called in sick were just using one of their remaining benefits.
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Your post illustrates how polls can mislead. If you don't ask the right question, you can't get the right answer.

The poll asked people to choose between workers who participated in a sickout (hardly a sympathetic group) or those who went to work and suffered because of the actions of the former. When the choice was put as it was, it's no surprise that people were not supportive of the employees who called in sick.

A more telling or relevant poll might have been whether people feel that the sickout was a reasonable reaction to the labor/management situation at UAIR. Or whether people think that the sickout will help the labor/management situation at UAIR.
 
To all the non airline folks, who read these boards. The majority of US workers, are not represented by the rt zingers from the unions on these boards. The majority do not agree with the few you read posting on here. The radicals would have you to believe, that all employees hate management, hate their jobs, and hate life in general! Not only is that false, (these polls, and the voting for cost cuts the past 2 times,) have shown it! They are in denial, complete udder denial..... Usairways i,s and will return one day to make money, and put our customers first. Hopefully , after weeding out the slackers, that day will come sooner, rather than later. Please stand by us, thru this crappy time. Now , lets us get those weedeaters out!
 
Motnot and usfliboi, thanks for providing a reasoned and refreshingly balanced perspective.

As a non US Airways employee, it gets tiresome dredging through the chat-like semi-literate management bashing "banter" that accounts for the bulk of the volume here. Aside from being of no interest to anyone other than the poster and perhaps a handful of the choir, it never really seems to further a conversation.

The ignorant and the loud will always exist. It is this way with any organization. However, if there was any one time for the various factions to put away their differences and pretend they can work with each other, that time is now. If there was any one time for the blowhards and the angry malcontents to pretend to be "professional," that time is now.

Media attention of the sort that US Airways garnered this weekend does not bode well for continued viability. I fly you folks often, and am well acquainted with the industry. I hope you folks are able to pull this one through. In the mean time, continue to give customers a reason to fly US Airways.
 
As both and insider and outsider.. a former mgmt employee... I can tell you, Poor managment is as much to blame as the over paid union knuckle heads... I can't really decide % fault between the two groups though. As a non partial observer, I blame the current mess on a failure of both groups to work together, much a like failed marriage where both parties had their own faults.. The sad thing is, if either party were willing to accept blame and move forward constructively, U might have had a real chance for survival.. instead they chose to duke it out in the courts, lining the pockets of lawyers (again much like a failed marriage).. The rank and file are the children.. aahh weep for the children.
 
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usair_begins_with_u said:
As both and insider and outsider.. a former mgmt employee... I can tell you, Poor managment is as much to blame as the over paid union knuckle heads... I can't really decide % fault between the two groups though. As a non partial observer, I blame the current mess on a failure of both groups to work together, much a like failed marriage where both parties had their own faults.. The sad thing is, if either party were willing to accept blame and move forward constructively, U might have had a real chance for survival.. instead they chose to duke it out in the courts, lining the pockets of lawyers (again much like a failed marriage).. The rank and file are the children.. aahh weep for the children.
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This is a very good posting.
 

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