totobird
Posted on Mar 25 2004, 07:48 AM
For those of you who hate USAirways as I have read on here day after day go look for another job now and leave the majority of us to make USAirways great once again. I for one am not ready to see us go out of business. I really think we can make it.
totobird,
I don't hate my job, I love it. I just hate the corporate raiders who have come in to skim the cream off the top, no wait, I mean most of the glass until our cup is empty.
During bankrupcy the unionized groups realized that the ecomony would not support the old economic models anymore. So the unionized groups voted themselves lower pay scales, more share of the benefit costs, and relaxed work rules, to help the company be more efficient. The unionized groups didn't do this once, they stepped up to the plate and did this twice.
The savings from the unionzed groups, not non-unionized labor, or organizational effeciency, but unionized groups was more than 1 billion dollars PER YEAR.
Now the unionized groups are being demonized for not being willing to give more. The unionized groups are asking why should they?
After giving up so much, has the company stepped up to the plate and utilized the tools that we have already given them. From what we have seen, the answer is no!
Where are the savings from non-unionized labor, or organizational efficiency? We don't see any! All we see is that 1 billion dollars of what used to be our wages has fallen into a black hole of waste and greed.
If, we see the company changing instead of studying;
If, we see the company utilizing the contract changes already conceded;
If, we see the company follow contracts, instead of using all of their corporate time and energy making war on their employees;
If, we see some returns and utilizations of the money and other concessions we have already given;
Then, the unionized groups will sit down with the company and see what other changes may be appropriate for our contracted labor.
Until then, it has become obvious that the only thing this management team is capable of running is employee harassment and economic terrorism campaigns.