PLEASE UA employees get your heads out of the sand. There are not many jobs out there that come any where near a living wage. If you don''t believe me just ask any UA people that got their pink slips after 9/11. Sure go back to school but you had better be sure there are jobs in the field you go back to school for. Doesn''t anyone see what it is like? Just this year alone I have seen pilots, mechanics, dispatchers etc. throwing boxes at FedEx, people with MBAs from 3M who got their pink slips begging for jobs at Fanny Farmer store and that was for a part time min wage job. Yes there really is a big problem in our country when a company the size of UA going down but I do know it is not the fault of labor or unions. How do I know? It does not take a MBA to figure it out or do you not know the history of just your company? It was in trouble even back in 1971 they had huge layoffs then with people not getting recalls until 5yrs later then to getting pink slips again 2wks later. Don''t you think it is strange management in 31yrs have not gotten their act together? It is not labor or unions. It is greedy upper level management that think it is alright to get Not Less Than a $10,000 bonus and saying it is alright because THEY MET THEIR GOALS AND IT IS LIKE OVERTIME PAY FOR THEM. Meeting their goals at the cost of taking a job away from another person and it is okey for that person AND HIS FAMILY TO LOOSE THEIR HOME AND NO HEALTH INSURANCE OR DENTAL INSURANCE. IT IS GREEDY TOP LEVEL MANAGEMENT WHO HAVE BUY OUT CONTRACTS PLUS ALL THE PERKS WHO RUN THE COMPANIES WITH NO MORALS, INTEGRITY, OR JUTICE. They take what they want run a company down and then go to another company and do the same thing. Remember Enron, Eastern, Pan Am, World Com, Etc. Our goverment just doesn''t get it and going to another country and killing or hurting others so they can get their oil, that is not ours, will not cover up what is really going on. A war will not give people their jobs back. Our country is really on a slippery slope when we kill the unborn, lay off another so they can meet a goal to get a bonus, and then trying to say our nation is no longer under God BECAUSE IT IS NOT POLITICALY CORRECT we are all in big trouble.