Originally Posted by
McFlyPHL
Perhaps the FAs should take it up with their union - you know, the one that negotiated and agreed to these types of programs. I'm amused the the union is blasting management because they no longer like the agreement they made. Kind of reminds me of a kid screaming "but mooooooooooooom..."
This is nearly as ludicrous as asking the entire labor group to do the same thing when times are tough. Makes amusing buttons and union demands, but that's about it.
Actually the profit sharing plan of the employees isn't unreasonable so for the union to demand more (in the midst of everything else going on) or different in terms of the criterion would not have been reasonable.
The profit sharing plan of the management on the other hand is very poorly constructed and the union does not have a say in the management incentives (it is not a collective decision). The burden is usually on the people who have the power, i.e., the management, to make sure that their own compensation is consistent (in criterion and metrics not absolute amounts since some people seem to misinterpret this all the time) with the state of of the company and that of the employees, that is just good business practice and encourages company morale. Otherwise, they reap what they sow.. the buttons are just the beginning and is simply an indicator of the antagonism to come... there is a lot more trouble ahead for this management because they just don't know how to handle a workforce (unionized or not is irrelevant).