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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 4:27 pm
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flyinbob
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Forgive yet another uninformed question about this, as I have never been in a union or had union employees. But if this CHAOS thing were to begin, AFTER a judge cancels the contract, and according to the union the 30 day cooling off period doesn't apply, don't all UA FAs then become like most of us, at-will employees? If they don't show up for work, or for any reason at all for that matter, can't UA dismiss them and hire on other FAs, like the $8 an hour JetBlue ones? While the action would impact things very short term, it would be once and they're out, so the action would be short-lived. Probably something I'm missing here, but all these threats from the union do at this point is insure most of us will make sure we have staus on other airlines for next year, costing UA even more revenue. Shooting yourself in the foot results only in a sore foot.
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