Originally Posted by Sooner
I don't work for United, and I don't like the idea of any kind of strike. But, at some point, I do think the employees will say enough is enough. They have been asked to make numerous sacrifices in wages and work rule changes, only to see the money be spent to give bonuses to management or wasted on programs that did not contribute to the future of the company.
Yet they also bent the company over the barrel and extorted huge wage and benefit increases from them when times were "plenty".
It's a boom or bust industry, which results in feast or famine for the employees and management.
The late 1990s were a boom/feast point.
We're now in a bust/famine point.
Soon enough, we'll be back to boom/feast and the unions will make sure their members get their massive raises and management will blow money on dumb things and then a few years later it will be bust/famine time again, and cutbacks will be required.