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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 12:00 pm
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Sooner
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Originally Posted by venk
These people are living in the past if they assume that labor actions naturally translate to sympathy towards labor and antipathy towards the airline as the big, bad corporation.
Since UAL made a motion to the BK judge today to cancel all union contracts unless the various unions agreed to this latest round of work rule changes and pay cuts, where will your sympathy be? Those flight attendants are now being asked to work 16 hour duty days, while being paid for 8 hours. Can you think of any other job where that is the norm?

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