<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Robert Leach:
In all fairness, B747, I don't think having a union in place would have helped a darn bit as far as the airline as a whole is concerned. It might have limited the workforce reductions some, but I doubt it. In the end, frontline customer service would probably have suffered (as with a union in place, you basically can't fire anybody and hence surly employees can often go unchallenged). And a union in place certainly wouldn't have changed the executive pension scandal. </font>
Actually, it might have well affected the executive pension scandal, as it is likely that the MECs would have been in some position to either make noise sooner or else block the pension agreements from being established.
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