Originally Posted by gsupstate
EXACTLY!! And you don't make an airline a better one by cutting its heart and soul out! Negotiate better contracts with vendors. Pay management more-earthly salaries. Even institute austerity programs concerning certain supplies, but to continually cut salaries and workforce just diminishes the company's ability to satisfy customers. Remember: under-promise, but over-deliver! ^
It goes both ways.
Many in the auto, airline, and other union industries fought management for years when MGT asked employees to pay a piece of their health care benefits. While 80% or more of the US workforce was paying their "fair share" (as I have for over 20 years) these union employees werent paying a dime for medical, dental, vision. Even as their low level management and adminstraive coworkers who worked along side of them were!
We are starting to see the willingness in the auto industry to accept what the rest of us have taken for granite for over 2 decades. But it might be too late for one or two of the "Big 3"
Is it to late for airline employees (not unions) to figure out what its going to take to help their companys not only survive, but thrive? You might want to ask all those non union auto workers in Ohio, KY, TN, and AL, who make so much more than the "average" production employee but figured out that flexibility, and fair share goes both ways. And their mfg facilities are thriving!