Another day, another "doom and gloom for NWA" thread started by magsau. Thanks for assisting NWA management as they attempt to beat their employees down.
We know you find North By Northwest annoying; truth be told so do many of us, I'd wager. What you apparently fail to notice is the he or she is a distinct minority among NWA employees and that most of us have expressed nothing but support or empathy for our fellow airline employees at U, UAL and elsewhere. We know that you don't like many of the decisions that NWA management has made that have harmed your carrier; guess what...neither did most of us, but they didn't ask us before they made them.
Before you revel in the thought of an NWA bankruptcy, consider what will happen at your airline when NWA uses bankruptcy to improve their competitive position relative to yours. Think they'll be asking you for more concessions? Does the thought of the continued erosion of
all of our jobs excite you?
Bankruptcy at NWA became inevitable when it became obvious that airlines could escape their pension committments, committments they had intentionally underfunded when times were good, through bankruptcy. No one carrier is to blame for that, and certainly not the employees of any one carrier. It was a series of decisions made by a generation of airline management that felt no responsibility for the long term prospects of their carriers and knew that they would never be held responsible for those decisions. Put the blame where it belongs.
There is a reason that NWA is historically the most often struck airline among the surviving carriers, and the current generation of NWA management is no different. The fact that they were willing to lose 1.2 Billion dollars in the 1998 pilots strike for no real gain proved that. This time it will be the excuse they need to avail themselves of the 'benefits' of bankruptcy without having to take the blame themselves. With NWA's relatively healthy balance sheet, it is also inevitable that they will survive the process and, with the precedents set by the carriers that preceded them, make the massive changes they feel they need to not only maintain but improve their competitive position relative to the other airlines. Having seen what the other carriers were able to achieve through bankruptcy, undoubtedly their demands will be even more extreme that those that preceeded them. The only certain result for NWA employees, and those of other carriers, is further losses of jobs, pay and benefits. Enjoy!
Rather than simply resign themselves to this, NWA employees have resisted and continue to resist, just as the employees at the other carriers have in their turn. But as we head into battle, you'll have to pardon us if we don't always have time to respond to your daily threads taking pleasure in our, and through us your own, doom.
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