That's THE problem with unions.
Judgement calls can't be made
in situations such as this and that
gives the union members no
reason to be above board with their
actions. They should all be fired
and required to write letters of
apology to the customers. Period.
Sorry I don't have a cute picture of Timmy in a wheelchair or somesuch to go along with my screen name. Oh well.
IF anyone owes anyone a letter of apology for anything....it would be the management of the abomination known as USAirways. You know, we should have an abbreviation for them....something like TSCAFKAATU
(the so-called airline formerly known as Allegheny and then USAir)
Why would management need to apologize?
Well, let's see.....how does screwing the clientele, squeezing people for every penny they can simply because they can.......because people had no other options sound? I would think that would constitute a sin worthy of an apology.
Did management squander all the shareholders' equity in a first bankruptcy (not to mention a second)?
Did management fail to act in a fiduciarily sound manner after the first bankruptcy, or did they squander concessions and additional financing and end up in bankruptcy court again?
Has the management bargained in good faith at any time or have they agreed to employee contracts, then violated the terms of said contracts, then relied on a friendly bankruptcy judge to give them what they could not gain thru bargaining, even if they had bargained in good faith (they hadn't)?
USAirways is a clear cut case of as ye sow, so shall ye reap. You don't throw good money after bad. Sometimes it is time to fish or cut bait and sometimes it is better to cut your losses and run.
Humans are, first and foremost, mammals (albeit not cute and lovable marine mammals like Flipper). Mammals are animals. You back any animal into a corner, and give them no course of escape, and threaten their very survival.....that animal is gonna claw you , bite you, or do whatever he or she can do to spoil your day.
Why is it any surprise that employees are behaving as they are? Do I condone it. Nah, it was not a good thing to do. Do I understand why they did it? Sure. Anyone who doesn't is too ignernt for words. They were given no alternatives.
You can fire the culprits....but that probably won't be enough to satiate the USAirways management apologists and other silly people. They'd like to have the call-in-sick crowd drawn and quartered....or at the very least lines up on the ramp with a firing squad.
Then again, the bullets are probably in one of the bags that got flown to Charlotte for collection & redistribution.
