Airways’ plan to become a more efficient airline can be achieved with further concessions from the employees. Each employee should ask if they are prepared to save this company. I would consult this decision with your family members. Your decision will ultimately affect your love ones. Now is not the time to be influenced by your union leaders. Now is not the time to be selfish and buy into the union rhetoric that will destroy this company and your careers. Explain to your children that you don’t have a job anymore, but you fought a good fight for the union. Discuss with your spouses what your family will do financially if you are without a job because of your militant union stance.
Each employee should question if the unions have their best welfare in mind. The IAM members should question why there is a lack of communication from their leaders. Your union has not published an official document or conducted a polling of its membership about whether to give concessions or not. Union membership should not forget that YOU run the unions and not your leaders. Don’t allow your leaders to lead you down the wrong path. The path of unemployment is where the IAM members are heading if they don’t voice their complaints to the local leaders. Your union doesn’t have anything to lose by discussing with the company about possible concessions. Now is not the time to ponder on the Airbil outsourcing issue, concentrate on saving this company. Do the right thing! Help save this company by working with management. We can work with management to give the necessary give backs to enable us to fight the real enemies, the competitors.
The unions have secured some of the premier salaries in organized labor in the last few years. The current industry can’t support these salaries and compete with America West. We can compete with the LCCs, but we need to work together as a union and give management the essential concessions. Another bankruptcy won’t save jobs, but concessions might.
Nobody is idyllic with a state of affairs where salaries and benefits will be reduced. However, most employees realize the serious gravity of the current financial situation and are keen to do what it takes to help build a new future for Airways’. It is crucial that labor comes on board.
Each employee should question if the unions have their best welfare in mind. The IAM members should question why there is a lack of communication from their leaders. Your union has not published an official document or conducted a polling of its membership about whether to give concessions or not. Union membership should not forget that YOU run the unions and not your leaders. Don’t allow your leaders to lead you down the wrong path. The path of unemployment is where the IAM members are heading if they don’t voice their complaints to the local leaders. Your union doesn’t have anything to lose by discussing with the company about possible concessions. Now is not the time to ponder on the Airbil outsourcing issue, concentrate on saving this company. Do the right thing! Help save this company by working with management. We can work with management to give the necessary give backs to enable us to fight the real enemies, the competitors.
The unions have secured some of the premier salaries in organized labor in the last few years. The current industry can’t support these salaries and compete with America West. We can compete with the LCCs, but we need to work together as a union and give management the essential concessions. Another bankruptcy won’t save jobs, but concessions might.
Nobody is idyllic with a state of affairs where salaries and benefits will be reduced. However, most employees realize the serious gravity of the current financial situation and are keen to do what it takes to help build a new future for Airways’. It is crucial that labor comes on board.
