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On 2/28/2003 9:44:23 AM Zephyr wrote:
Seriously, I am not at all interested in any comparison except what your "new" W-2 now looks like in comparison to SoutWest And Airtran.
This is not a question of how to figure out US Air problems. I is a question of whether or not US Air has, for all intents and purposes, ceased to be a "mainline" carrier in pay and benefits.
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We here at U have given severe wage/benefit concessions in order to subsidize a "low cost carrier" within mainline, which in turn will create an even LOWER STANDARD OF LIVING FOR THOSE WHO WORK FOR THIS CARRIER.
Yes, we saved an airline all right...
As a Union we created jobs (good); conversely, as a Union we created NON livable wages (bad).
Yes indeedy, it will provide employment, which for most employees will probably have to be in conjunction with yet another job in order to survive.
Hey, it was not in vein though, one group will reap nicely. The senior execs, who starting in 2005, (management JUST NOW extended that), will receive the bonus and perk compensation that our sacrifices will have provided.
PS. FACT: LUV f/as duty day is shorter than hours, and their hourly top-out rate was higher than U's even BEFORE the first round of concessions.