The "odd couple" asks, "why them and not us!"

[overhauler]

news.yahoo.com/airlines-want-to-know-why-us-okd-previous-mergers-203959500.html

Your Honor, the DOJ allowed the United/Continental & Delta/Northwest mergers to go forward, but not us! That's not fair!!!

What a bunch of hypocrites!

I guess their idea of fair was when management received record bonus while the airline bled loss, and the unionized employees took massive concessions! this all happened during the period know as "shared sacrifices"

I'm sure those of you over at US Airways have countless stories about how your management team defines fair.

I'm retiring in a couple of years, I LOVE my job! I've enjoyed working with most of the people I have encountered in the 30+ years in the industry. The only reason I didn't take the early out is because my wife has major health issues, I really need the insurance. I hate what has become of the profession. I still remember my first day at AA, I was so eager and proud to join the team! There is sinister darkness that has invaded corporate America, and even our elected officials. The disparity between the common worker, and the CEO has blossomed out of control! The corporations control both houses of Congress. While you argue with your co-workers, neighbors, etc about which party is better for the Country, like your choosing a side in a football game, both parties are gutting your standard of living. You root them on at your expense, because "hey my party is right, and your's is wrong!" I don't know what the answer is, I just hope it changes for the better so that the future generation of workers will be as eager, and proud to join a team as I was so many years ago.

 

[Thomas Paine]

Good post overhauler. You are right. Our political system has become corrupted. The answer lies in the past. Thomas Jefferson said it well . A revolution is needed every now and then.

 

[jimntx]

Well now your friends in the Republican Party got the Supremes (controlled by Republican appointed justices) to rule that corporations are just folks like you and me. The fact that they have millions of dollars more to spend on buying legislators than you and I have is totally irrelevant. Thus, we have an economic system which allows corporate executives to demand concessions from the employees, and then award themselves bonuses from the take.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Good post overhauler. You are right. Our political system has become corrupted. The answer lies in the past. Thomas Jefferson said it well . A revolution is needed every now and then.

I thought I would post the actual letter. It has a few spelling errors but i chose not to correct them and to display the letter as posted.

"I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted." - Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787

 

[Kev3188]

I hate what has become of the profession. I still remember my first day at AA, I was so eager and proud to join the team!

I'm willing to bet 90% of the people that read this thread will nod in agreement when reading these 2 sentences...

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

90%er

I was eager and proud my first day as well. I am not a mechanic (or even an AA employee anymore) but, I do not like what I see happening to the mechanics. I do not like what I see happening to airline employees in general.

I remember all the “Working Together” propaganda. What they really meant was AA/TWU international working together against the membership.

Working at American Airlines used to be a prestigious job in Tulsa. Not anymore.