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Q,
you would be wrong that I don't and haven't managed people.
If you don't advocate union activity, then you certainly have never expressed that DL employees could end up with the best compensation without a unions.
And the reality is that a simple comparison to DL's peers shows that DL employees fare better than the rest.
Kev,
I'll buy that part of the decrease in posting activity is due to the end of the labor-initiated challenges.
Yes, cards continue to come in but others expire. If the net amount of cards reached the necessary levels, there would and should be elections. Because elections haven't occurred, I doubt seriously the interest is there that you think is enough to change the representation situation.
FWAAA,
yes, unions traded away profit sharing and for the most part in the airline industry that would be a wise decision because airlines have rarely consistently provided enough profit sharing to matter.
The whole reason why DL employees are soaring well past $1B in profit sharing over a number of years since exiting BK is because DL is indeed running a different company, precisely the topic of this thread. If DL employees (of which the OP is not one) don't recognize that DL is a different company than others and than what occurred in the past, then they get a reminder every Feb 14 - or they are working on number 4.
And DL also knows that profit sharing is like crack- don't hand it out and then start taking it away. The company has set the bar pretty high with now profit sharing almost equal to one month's salary.
When DL tells investors that 2014 should produce stronger profits than 2013, then the likelihood that DL employees will believe they can get anything better elsewhere is slim.
Equally, other airline employees will increasingly find it hard to accept the high pay including profit sharing that DL is paying as just a fluke.
And let's be honest that any company enjoys having its people being able to look at their peers in their industry and know that their own employees are well paid compared to most and seeing faster increases and larger profit sharing compared to nearly all airlines and even non-airline companies.
you would be wrong that I don't and haven't managed people.
If you don't advocate union activity, then you certainly have never expressed that DL employees could end up with the best compensation without a unions.
And the reality is that a simple comparison to DL's peers shows that DL employees fare better than the rest.
Kev,
I'll buy that part of the decrease in posting activity is due to the end of the labor-initiated challenges.
Yes, cards continue to come in but others expire. If the net amount of cards reached the necessary levels, there would and should be elections. Because elections haven't occurred, I doubt seriously the interest is there that you think is enough to change the representation situation.
FWAAA,
yes, unions traded away profit sharing and for the most part in the airline industry that would be a wise decision because airlines have rarely consistently provided enough profit sharing to matter.
The whole reason why DL employees are soaring well past $1B in profit sharing over a number of years since exiting BK is because DL is indeed running a different company, precisely the topic of this thread. If DL employees (of which the OP is not one) don't recognize that DL is a different company than others and than what occurred in the past, then they get a reminder every Feb 14 - or they are working on number 4.
And DL also knows that profit sharing is like crack- don't hand it out and then start taking it away. The company has set the bar pretty high with now profit sharing almost equal to one month's salary.
When DL tells investors that 2014 should produce stronger profits than 2013, then the likelihood that DL employees will believe they can get anything better elsewhere is slim.
Equally, other airline employees will increasingly find it hard to accept the high pay including profit sharing that DL is paying as just a fluke.
And let's be honest that any company enjoys having its people being able to look at their peers in their industry and know that their own employees are well paid compared to most and seeing faster increases and larger profit sharing compared to nearly all airlines and even non-airline companies.
