No company is there for the pure enrichment and enjoyment of the worker. It's first order of business is to SURVIVE.
After that a company must work for BALANCE between employees, investors, and customers.
When a company declares bankruptcy, it's very survival is at stake. (Does everyone get that?)
A company that give all their workers everything they want is doomed to failure. Seriously.
If anyone believes a company complete exists only for workers . . . well, that's a very socialist view. And socialism isn't very American.
A company that has happy workers has productive workers, and more offen than not a profitable and ever-expanding business. Case in point; Southwest Airlines, who is the most unionized and profitable carrier flying today. For the most part, SWA takes care of their people, and it shows every quarter.
Now, if you want to look at a number of carriers that continously made management blunders while crapping on the employees, of whom are expected to pay for these management mistakes, look no further than TWA, Eastern Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Delta, and US Airways. These current and former management teams have continuously made foolish, greedy, inept business decisions while enriching themselves off the backs of the frontline employees.
When it comes time for the inevitable slide into bankruptcy, the employees of these disfunctional or now defunct carriers are supposed to "buck up" and accept whatever comes their way because they are: "Just lucky to have a job" and should be thankful for the scraps that are thrown their way.
Are we to just accept the fact that robber barron type corporate criminals like Carl Icaan, Frank Lorenso, Doug Steenland, Don Carty and a host of others are just the way it is in the airline world??? I think not.
Most of us that have a spine feel that Chapter 7 liquidation should be the result of these failures as we no longer are willing to finance what will most likely be a fatal result in the long run anyway. If they can't run a business in a just and correct manner, than it will die as it should. The persistant failure of the non-existant business plans or the business plan of hiding behind a bankruptcy judge to void union contracts, pensions, and paying creditors is wrong. This while the corporate elite float away with millions? NO MORE!!!!
Let the business die a Chapter 7 liquidation death, as those of us are sick and tired of giving in to the coporate greed "more is not enough" mentality while the workers that helped build the company suffer. No worker wants to see its employer fail, but at some point you must draw the line.
I am not willing to give another dime. Seriously. Do you get it????
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