Bob,
Only thing I understand is that in Corporate America today, most companys understand the synergistic fragile balance that is needed to succeed today in their respective competitive market. In order for a company to achieve success, and sustain that level of achievment, all must work as a team to provide a competitive product and quality customer service. No matter what business your in. In order to do that THERE CAN NOT BE LABOR UNREST. You can not achieve any long term corporate goals if there is fighting between your employees and mangement collectively. High anxiety among the workers filled with continued uncertainty and fear of job loss by either furlough, termination, or sickness. The focus here is all wrong.
Wolf did not bloat the cost structure, UNITED AIRLINES MANAGEMENT DID. Most contracts on the property had "parity plus 1% when it came to wage triggers. AFA did not. But none the less, this concept which was a MANAGEMENT CONCEPT AND NEGOTIATION, back fired. But who took the major hits for these poor management decisions WAS LABOR.
I am not in agreement with you that Dave will have any eye on growing revenue and profit with the same zeal when all his cost structure vision is completed. This company will make a profit as a consequence of NOT giving the employees livable wages they can survive on, very little benefits along with raking from the customer and providing very little quality customer service.
You watch how this pans out. If the airline continues down this path, this great franchise will cease to exist. And that will be a result of "lack of vision for the long term" success of the company, by this management. We as employees are operating this airline without any real leadership and inspite of this mangement. We have asked them repeatedly to "roll up their sleeves" and join us any day now.
if this airline does not succeed, the Corporate community will view this in many ways and will look to blame employees...but we as labor and those that were close to these labor groups know the truth. AND IT WILL BE TOLD.
If Mechanics don't stand up now against this mangement with the out sourcing of their work, inspite of clear contract language, THEN ALL WILL FAIL IN UNION LABOR IN AMERICA TODAY. You have to have faith that it is the right thing to do from these corporate raiders, even if it costs you your job....ALL OF OUR JOBS.
Examples must be set to show corporate america that you can't get away scot free when you continue to demoralize and disrespect, and devalue your employees. If things don't change, specifically with this outsourcing of work idea with management. The airline is done. There will be no stakeholders, no return on investment. And trust that management will have lost more than we. We are losing are jobs daily, in one form or another, and one way or another. We are perishing slowly anyway.
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