Has anything changed?

[Dog Wonder]

As the working class tries endlessly to keep this airlne afloat only to see the operation foundering I wonder who benefits.

Not the 'cost neutral' working stiffs. Certainly not the customers, even our most loyal ones are abused, and then ignored.

So who benefits? Not even the most loyal goobersmoochers of middle management can get back what they put into it.

This airline is collapsing under the weight of the arrogance at the top. They know full well what they are taking far outweighs their contribution.

Take your money and run boys. If I see you in Hell both of us will know you deserved a worse fate.

 

[xoxo]

On October 31st the company will realize maybe just how much their employees really mean to them.

 

[wings396]

That's an easy question to answer.....The Shareholders, and Doug. If you haven't already figured out who is #1 priority, you soon will. They mean everything, and the employess mean NOTHING. Screw the workforce as long as the shareholders can benefit from it. Sad, but true. Wolfie and his little sidekick drilled that info in to our brains years ago.

 

[700UW]

Doug, Crellin, Air Canada, Air Wisconsin, Republic, Lakefield and the rest of the band of thieves.

 

[700UW]

Bob,

You are so far off base you dont deserve a reply, when you mature enough to actually hold a debate instead of attacks and lies, then I will answer you.

Guess 50+ years of the best CBA in the industry means nothing, since you are NO a labor expert, NOT a union member nor US Airways Employee, you will NEVER understand.

US never staffed GRR with IAM fleet service.

Keep trying and once again, don't let the facts get in your way.

 

[700UW]

News Article Hails IAM Pension Victories
“It is said that in the event of a nuclear holocaust, only Cher and cockroaches will have enough resilience to survive. Perhaps the International Association of Machinists should be added to the list.â€￾ So begins an October 3, 2006 article by TheStreet.com reporter Ted Reed that details IAM successes during the most volatile period in the history of commercial air transportation.

The article contrasted the IAM’s pension and job preservation strategies at United and US Airways with the self-destructive strike forced upon Northwest Airlines Mechanics by the leadership of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA).

“In bankruptcy, the IAM ‘managed to have a sensible defense in a bad situation, in contrast to the suicidal offensive effort that AMFA carried out’,â€￾ says Thomas Kochan, professor of work and employment relations at MIT Sloan School of Management. “The AMFA situation (at Northwest) illustrated the cost of a union coming along and arguing that it can do better than any other union.â€￾

Machinists Weather Storm - The Street.com

Pretty good reading if you ask me.

 

[dc3fanatic]

The merger benefited lots of people, including the east employees. Otherwise, US Airways would look just like Independance Air.

 

[N628AU]

Guess 50+ years of the best CBA in the industry means nothing, since you are NO a labor expert, NOT a union member nor US Airways Employee, you will NEVER understand.

Tell that to the planners and tech specialists. So many of them saw what that "best CBA" did to their careers and QOL.

 

[LCC_#1]

Who did the merger benefit? Hum! Maybe the 20,000 employees who would be working elsewhere today.....or the other 15,000 who probably would have faced a challenge to survive???? Wake up, people!! For anything bad I may have to say about the merger, it has benefited ALL of us by saving our collective butts! And that is a good thing!

 

[NCFL]

On October 31st the company will realize maybe just how much their employees really mean to them.

Dumb question, perhaps, but what is happening October 31?

 

[wings396]

Who did the merger benefit? Hum! Maybe the 20,000 employees who would be working elsewhere today.....or the other 15,000 who probably would have faced a challenge to survive???? Wake up, people!! For anything bad I may have to say about the merger, it has benefited ALL of us by saving our collective butts! And that is a good thing!

Please don't forget the thousands of others who are still on furlough. How many of them have benefited from the merger?? Maybe a very small number, but that is it. We still have lots of Fleet people who are out on the street due to the 60 day recall issue. Based on what I am hearing, the company is dragging it's feet on this issue as they prefer new hires that last a few weeks instead. So far the only thing that I have seen change are the top players, and where their offices are located. Same ideas, same tactics now coming from PHX instead of CCY. Make a profit, line our pockets, and keep tellig the worforce that we can't afford to pay them a decent wage. :down:

 

[LCC_#1]

Please don't forget the thousands of others who are still on furlough. How many of them have benefited from the merger?? Maybe a very small number, but that is it. We still have lots of Fleet people who are out on the street due to the 60 day recall issue. Based on what I am hearing, the company is dragging it's feet on this issue as they prefer new hires that last a few weeks instead. So far the only thing that I have seen change are the top players, and where their offices are located. Same ideas, same tactics now coming from PHX instead of CCY. Make a profit, line our pockets, and keep tellig the worforce that we can't afford to pay them a decent wage. :down:

While I agree with you, HAVING a company IS a benefit and THAT was one of the questions.

 

[whodoiworkfor]

Management and stockholders value. Labor is NOTHING and WORTHLESS. Oh it is time to change their opinion!!

 

[Dog Wonder]

Who did the merger benefit? Hum! Maybe the 20,000 employees who would be working elsewhere today.....or the other 15,000 who probably would have faced a challenge to survive???? Wake up, people!! For anything bad I may have to say about the merger, it has benefited ALL of us by saving our collective butts! And that is a good thing!

Yes, people still have jobs.

But as long as the current course is followed this airline is just buying time. while those at the top continue to fill their pockets without improving the product.

 

[Seatacus]

On October 31st the company will realize maybe just how much their employees really mean to them.

Does this have something to do with employees coming to work in haloween costumes?