I guess at USAirways, labor having endured the pains of post 9/11, tens of thousands of job losses through base closures, displacements, two bankruptcies, 3 restructuring agreements in 8 years, career-changing concessions, pensions dumped, two mangemnt teams not from this planet, wars and fuel prices soaring, mutliple reworked, over done business plans, here you sit, at present day, not nearly in the break-even mode, after the $$billions of give backs, "free passes" from t wo bankruptcies getting rid of lease agreements and old leased a/c, etc, looking for an airline to partner with, USAirways still can't make it work!
Not even close to a merged/joint agreement with America West, who unfortunatley got tangled in the USArways web.
American unions need to focus on their own negotiations with THEIR managment. You guys have absolutely no idea what sub-human you guys are dealing with over there. Read the USAirways history between 2002 and current day. Look up our negotiations. It's on the wide web as we took our anger and frustrations to the press and media. This was the BEST leverage w had!
I remember quite well the hell. I am more dangerous out of USAirways than in. As a retiree, I live the consequences of those losses. As I had written, and I am sure you remember PITbull, I will NEVER forget. And I will talk about what happened to us at USAirways all my days, to those who will listen, and even those who won't.
USAiways f/as are once again trying to get a new contract agreement, after a failed T/A two months ago.
Nah, I think I'll stick around here and let American labor unions know that they really need to do their homework and research USAirways. After all, they broke the glass ceiling on maxing out the BK permitted by law, restructuring inside and outside of BK, and no matter how much $$ they got from labor to balance their books, they kept coming back and saying, " you know what, we just underestimated what was needed, and we need Millions more to stay viable and keep the doors open. All along, lining upper management pockets, and in every BK they asked the judge for Millions and milliions in "retentiion bonuses" to keep the "so-called" good help they have on board. At the same time freezing our pensions, and then motioning for termiantion.
And they got it!
Better the Devil you know, then the devil you don't know.
Process that.