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Well this would appear to be a vote of no confidence in Tilton and - by association - Hacker and Brace.
This is good news for labor. Hopefully the BOD getting active will bring the type of collaboration labor says is missing.
UAL board balks at reorganization plan offered by Tilton
Members to take an active role in developing it
By John Schmeltzer
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 31, 2003
The board of United Airlines' parent, while agreeing the airline needs to be fundamentally changed, failed Thursday to back a plan that its unions charge would cause a breakup of the carrier, said sources close to the board.
UAL Corp.'s board directed Glenn Tilton, chairman and chief executive, and airline management to pursue further detail and analysis of the plan's strategic initiatives, according to a company statement.
Rather than counting on the management team to develop the plan alone, the board said it will be fully engaged in the development of the plan ... as the company continues its dialogue with it unions, the creditors committee and other constituent groups.
Joseph Schwieterman, an airline expert and the director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University, said, It's obvious that a consensus won't emerge about a strategic plan any time soon.
Schwieterman, who has closely followed United's situation, said that the board appears to have decided that it needs to immerse [itself] in the development of a plan to buy labor peace.
Disclosure this week of plans to create a discount airline within United, staffed by lower-paid employees, enraged pilots and flight attendants.
United has said that it believes that a low-cost carrier, fully integrated into a global hub-and-spoke network for the first time, will be a critical ... element in United's future strength.
The world's second-largest airline filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors on Dec. 9.
Greg Davidowitch, president of the flight attendants union, said in a letter Thursday to his 24,000 members that it appears that management has begun presenting bits of a `trendy' strategy for our airline in the media. And their version of this trendy strategy could not be worse.
Noting that the plan calls for the transfer of 20 percent to 40 percent of United's operations to either the new discount airline or to United's commuter partners, Davidowitch said flight attendants will not support current management's attempt at a partial liquidation of our airline.
We will actively fight any attempt to break up our carrier and destroy more flight attendant jobs--and our lives--by the thousands.
Copyright © 2003, Chicago Tribune
This is good news for labor. Hopefully the BOD getting active will bring the type of collaboration labor says is missing.
UAL board balks at reorganization plan offered by Tilton
Members to take an active role in developing it
By John Schmeltzer
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 31, 2003
The board of United Airlines' parent, while agreeing the airline needs to be fundamentally changed, failed Thursday to back a plan that its unions charge would cause a breakup of the carrier, said sources close to the board.
UAL Corp.'s board directed Glenn Tilton, chairman and chief executive, and airline management to pursue further detail and analysis of the plan's strategic initiatives, according to a company statement.
Rather than counting on the management team to develop the plan alone, the board said it will be fully engaged in the development of the plan ... as the company continues its dialogue with it unions, the creditors committee and other constituent groups.
Joseph Schwieterman, an airline expert and the director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University, said, It's obvious that a consensus won't emerge about a strategic plan any time soon.
Schwieterman, who has closely followed United's situation, said that the board appears to have decided that it needs to immerse [itself] in the development of a plan to buy labor peace.
Disclosure this week of plans to create a discount airline within United, staffed by lower-paid employees, enraged pilots and flight attendants.
United has said that it believes that a low-cost carrier, fully integrated into a global hub-and-spoke network for the first time, will be a critical ... element in United's future strength.
The world's second-largest airline filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors on Dec. 9.
Greg Davidowitch, president of the flight attendants union, said in a letter Thursday to his 24,000 members that it appears that management has begun presenting bits of a `trendy' strategy for our airline in the media. And their version of this trendy strategy could not be worse.
Noting that the plan calls for the transfer of 20 percent to 40 percent of United's operations to either the new discount airline or to United's commuter partners, Davidowitch said flight attendants will not support current management's attempt at a partial liquidation of our airline.
We will actively fight any attempt to break up our carrier and destroy more flight attendant jobs--and our lives--by the thousands.
Copyright © 2003, Chicago Tribune
