Was there ever before a naysayer that said everything had to be flawless, and it turned out after the fact to be a bit of drama? Anyone, ever?
I'm not sure what your point is but mine is that the financial expectations that so many have from an AA-US merger are so much larger than the combined company can deliver that it will truly take a flawless execution on AA-US' part and missteps by every competitor in order for AA to generate the revenues necessary to provide the banks and investors as well as the employees the benefits they are all expecting from the merger.
You tell me how likely it is for AA and US individually or collectively to achieve that kind of success.
Returning to this question from several days ago:
More importantly, how do you or anyone think that alot of the people who are represented by the 2 or 3 unions for each of the major workgroups will be happy w/ the results of a combination?
Happiness is an intangible and entirely subjective experience that is not a factor considered when two airlines merge. Did Delta poll each NW and Delta employee to see if they were "happy"?
My point was specifically about satisfaction w/ the combination of the workforce which is even more difficult in a 3 way combination.... 2 is bad enough.
But since you threw in DL and NW, yes, DL does do employee surveys and has for years. They do not interview every employee but then pollsters only interviewed several thousand people at a time in order to be able to successfully predict the outcome of the most recent election in which 10s of millions of people voted.
The employment process, and specifically, the representation process is a democratic process and companies are capable of doing targeted research such that they can meet the expectations of the majority. AA, DL, and UA have all been able to get pilot contracts passed even though there have been a number of dissonant opinions regarding those contracts on many internet chat forums. All of those companies are moving forward w/ their strategic plans because those companies were able to identify the minimum requirements they had to meet to obtain the approval from the majority.
IN the most recent presidential elections in the US, more than 45% of the people did not choose the winner, some of them strongly so (as we have seen on this forum), and yet the process has moved on regardless.
Tell me which process is more significant to the lives of employees on the forum: what happened in national presidential elections or the labor-mgmt/representation process.
