How can the media be so dumb

[captianamerica]

This was in the paper the other day. Just goes to show how mindless the news media(errr in the payroll pockets of AA)... Id like to know what jobs are being created...oh yea maby the new45+ supervisor positions that are needed system wide now....ya new management

You have to scroll down to the bottom for the article.............
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0608/527809.html

 

[TWU informer]

Maybe your thinking could be a little off, if AA shuts AFW and/or MCI there could be "Tulsa" jobs created.

Tulsa Based employees have been thinking like you as a general rule though.

What would really be nice is to know details of the corporate welfare agreements and employment guarantee levels AA has agreed to in exchange for the handouts.

No doubt though, Tulsa Management, Tulsa Employees, Tulsa Media, and Tulsa Union Leaders are living in a bubble, and as long as jobs are coming to Tulsa who cares who gets their feet, toes, or legs for that matter stomped on.

 

[The Goose]

This was in the paper the other day. Just goes to show how mindless the news media(errr in the payroll pockets of AA)... Id like to know what jobs are being created...oh yea maby the new45+ supervisor positions that are needed system wide now....ya new management

You have to scroll down to the bottom for the article.............
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0608/527809.html

Well of course, Captain - you didn't know that management did it all and they keep us peons around only so as not to soil their hands?

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Question;

Who/what exactly is...Spirit Aerosystems, and what is their relationship to AA ??

 

[The Goose]

Question;

Who/what exactly is...Spirit Aerosystems, and what is their relationship to AA ??

Bears:

The only relationship is their location - next door, immediately south of the Tulsa M&E base - as far as I'm aware. Another connection would be taking Tulsa bond money to stay in the area, maintaining employment.

Spirit is a Canadian-owned company that makes parts for Boeing's different projects. Someone else could tell you better as to which they do there, but that's all.

 

[A/C FIXER]

Question;

Who/what exactly is...Spirit Aerosystems, and what is their relationship to AA ??

Bears:
Spirit bought out Boeing's interest at TUL, and as Goose says it's directly south of AA. They share a common fence just south of Hangar 6.

 

[snowtiger]

This was in the paper the other day. Just goes to show how mindless the news media(errr in the payroll pockets of AA)... Id like to know what jobs are being created...oh yea maby the new45+ supervisor positions that are needed system wide now....ya new management

You have to scroll down to the bottom for the article.............
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0608/527809.html

What you fail to realize is that the city of Tulsa could care less if the jobs created are new hires off the street or desperate employees tring to hold on to their jobs (transfers in lue of lAAy off). Either way it brings more individual tax dollars to the city. No one outside of the airline industy cares about the plight of the grunts keeping it afloat.

 

[enough already]

Question;

Who/what exactly is...Spirit Aerosystems, and what is their relationship to AA ??

Spirit was Rockwell International, then Boeing, and now Spirit.

 

[eolesen]

No one outside of the airline industy cares about the plight of the grunts keeping it afloat.

Based on how many non-GM/Ford/Chrysler cars I used to see in the employee lot, most airline workers didn't give a rats arse about the plight of the UAW workers keeping the Big Three afloat... (for the record, I drive a Jeep built in Toledo, and a second Jeep built in Belvedere, IL).

Why should you expect it to be any different with airline workers who drive Toyotas and shop at Walmart?

 

[Hopeful]

Based on how many non-GM/Ford/Chrysler cars I used to see in the employee lot, most airline workers didn't give a rats arse about the plight of the UAW workers keeping the Big Three afloat... (for the record, I drive a Jeep built in Toledo, and a second Jeep built in Belvedere, IL).

Why should you expect it to be any different with airline workers who drive Toyotas and shop at Walmart?

Just like the passenger has gotten used to cheap fares and little perks like TV as in jetblue, i guess the airline workers chose to spend their money on quality Toyotas and Hondas.
Im not talking about the current american auto products. I'm referring to the 60's and 70's when the US automakers thumbed their noses at the Japanese imports and continued to make 5000 lb cars which included 800 lbs of chrome and could fit 7 people comfortably.