Welcome to the internet Spounce... It is a real free for all. If it makes you feel better, I have 1700 posts and wouldn't totally disagree with flymate5. The bad blood is very real and you can sense in it bestof2k9's post. The front line staff do not always put their best foot forward. 1/4 of the posts on this board could attest to that. So where will the balance come from? The days ahead will tell, but I'm betting on the Feds having to dictate the solution and toss in some money.
This is not the place for me to discuss employee/employer relationships, however I will say this :
My post was a response to a blatant generalisation of the nefariousness of unions, I wasn't trying to show bad blood between employees and employer, simply trying to show that sacrifices have been made by the unions at AC when times were hard, and they haven't always been out to milk the cow.
Secondly, I have nothing against executives being rewarded,
for a job well done , however I find it hard to justify all the monies paid out to top management, in light of the events that happened over the past few years, and that
partly brought Air Canada to the precarious financial situation it finds itself in today.
It is hard to demonstrate solidarity towards a company, when they don't demonstrate any towards the employees.
Take David Barger, CEO of JetBlue, in example. Last year, he accepted a 50% percent pay cut, over a 6 month period, in acknowledgement of the hard time the airline was going through. While this gesture is only symbolical, as his 250,000$ salary still places him in the top 3% best paid individuals in the USA, it shows that he
knows, he
cares, and he's willing to help out.
Cheers,
A self-centered flyertalker, who puts his left foot forward and thinks he is owed the world
Bestof2k9