Originally Posted by SkySailor

When the going gets tough, you stay, or leave. It's difficult to decide, but what can you do? What will going on strike do? What do you REALLY expect United to do? Drop its plans to have employees give back? What realistically will all this bickering accomplish? As someone mentioned before, UA is in bankruptcy - it knows that it has this golden chance to align its costs with the lowest in the industry, and align work rules to be competitive. That's what being in bankruptcy can do for an airline. All companies that survive bankruptcy take that advantage and break to reorganize and regroup - or else they fail indefinitely.

I know all these changes are horrible. But it's part of a rapidly changing industry that you and everyone else must adapt to. If you don't, you're out of a job. That's the cold, hard truth. I think that anyone who doesn't believe that this bankruptcy procedure, cost cutting and restructuring isn't a precursor to better days in the future when UA is leaner and more competitive, should seriously reconsider why they're even still working at UA. I mean, seriously, what's the point in being bitter, hating the airline, hating the management and end up being unhappy every single day? Life is seriously too short to do that to yourself.