US Airways makes more Pittsburgh personnel cuts

[freedom]

Nice to see someone gives two sh!ts about the people involved.

For those who think this is about their opinion of the economics behind it, join the human race.

Did someone call for a baggage handler economist? Here i am ! ..... jk ....



my sympathy to everyone losing their jobs out in PIT ... tired of the job cuts .... :angry:

 

[Jimmy Neutron]

???????? So, if the company decides to stop flying to ORD what would any leader be able to do about every employee in that station being furloughed?????

That's the point, the company is not pulling out of these stations altogether!!!! Some of these cuts may be un-avoidable, but rest assured, the rest are nothing more than this management pulling out and exploiting every inch of our scope language just because they can! That my friend is where strong leadership comes in to play and doesn't just sit there saying oh well!, sorry but there,s nothing we can do, or sign a letter with the company agreeing to something as to not incure additional time and resources...give me a break!
You sound like someone who is either pro- management or pro- company and are obviously not walking in our shoes as this group has become the step-child of the company.....and we continue to work under a bankruptcy contract 7 years later....so don't preach here about what we do, where we are at and what needs to happen! No one in this group sits here and lives in a dream world, we just want our tiny piece of the pie and to be treated with respect, which has been long over-due.....

 

[SparrowHawk]

Making a great place to work INCLUDES great wages and benefits, DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Sorry to say you're wrong.

You can get away with paying your people about 20% LESS if you treat them right. Take a look at the list of 100 best places to work and I'll guarantee you they are not the wage leader in their industry.

Take my old employer, Xerox, Great place to work, good pay, Excellent benefits to this very day. However if you're only goal is to make more money this year I can name 5 places off the top of my head where you will earn much much more. Higher stress level as you don't have the support and you're subject to the whim of management. However you will make more cash.

 

[blue collar]

Sorry to say you're wrong.

You can get away with paying your people about 20% LESS if you treat them right. Take a look at the list of 100 best places to work and I'll guarantee you they are not the wage leader in their industry.

Take my old employer, Xerox, Great place to work, good pay, Excellent benefits to this very day. However if you're only goal is to make more money this year I can name 5 places off the top of my head where you will earn much much more. Higher stress level as you don't have the support and you're subject to the whim of management. However you will make more cash.

He said good pay and benefits are part of what makes a good workplace, not all of it. Look at southwest, good pay and good benefits, and consistently ranked as a top place to work.

 

[Move2CLT]

He said good pay and benefits are part of what makes a good workplace, not all of it. Look at southwest, good pay and good benefits, and consistently ranked as a top place to work.

For now.

 

[necigrad]

He said good pay and benefits are part of what makes a good workplace, not all of it. Look at southwest, good pay and good benefits, and consistently ranked as a top place to work.

One, you're neither proving nor disproving the theory. No one has said that a business CAN'T pay well with all those other conditions. Second, there are more businesses that support what was said then disprove it.

 

[john john]

...and we continue to work under a bankruptcy contract 7 years later..

I thought fleet service IAM has already negotiated and voted in a contract outside of bankruptcy

 

[Jimmy Neutron]

I thought fleet service IAM has already negotiated and voted in a contract outside of bankruptcy

What we voted on was essentially a transition agreement bringing the west and east together as around 90% of what was taken off of the group in Bankruptcy remained intact in the agreement along with provisions for outsourcing around 30-40% of our work at the end of the agreement which is exactly what the company continues to exploit on what seems a monthly basis!!!!!

Again this was an agreement that should have never made it to the membership for vote period!!!!! A first rate sell-out by a United District President!!!!! The time is now for this group to stop being treated like second class citizens to the UA group and the bleeding must stop now!!!!

And everyone wonders why we are so frustrated!!!!!

 

[wings396]

Agreed 100%

 

[john john]

What we voted on was essentially a transition agreement bringing the west and east together as around 90% of what was taken off of the group in Bankruptcy remained intact in the agreement along with provisions for outsourcing around 30-40% of our work at the end of the agreement which is exactly what the company continues to exploit on what seems a monthly basis!!!!!

Again this was an agreement that should have never made it to the membership for vote period!!!!! A first rate sell-out by a United District President!!!!! The time is now for this group to stop being treated like second class citizens to the UA group and the bleeding must stop now!!!!

And everyone wonders why we are so frustrated!!!!!

Fleet Service IAM never had a transition agreement between US/HP up to the time of the new 2008 contract

 

[Jimmy Neutron]

Fleet Service IAM never had a transition agreement between US/HP up to the time of the new 2008 contract

You mis-understood what I said....so let me reiterate it! If that's what you call a contract then the entire unionized world's in trouble.

The P.O.S. rag that UA bred District President Canale brought back to this membership was a blatant slap in the face of every Fleet Service agent east and west!

That was nothing more than a transition agreement and an extremely weak one at that..... One only needs to look at the resulting effects of that rag to see that, and the first place to start is the CSA groups CWA/IBT snap backs that just occured!

So you call it what you want, we call it a major slap in the face!!!!

 

[wings396]

That's correct, it added a small amount of coin along with the 3rd week of vacation a bit sooner for junior people. On the other hand it eliminated profit sharing and snapbacks, and locked US into this bk pos for 3 additional years.

 

[niblet]

That's correct, it added a small amount of coin along with the 3rd week of vacation a bit sooner for junior people. On the other hand it eliminated profit sharing and snapbacks, and locked US into this bk pos for 3 additional years.

Thats right. Our contract was open and we could of tried to negotiate real things we lost, instead we gave up more. Nver did undersatnd that. How a T/A was negative. I voted NO and went over every point with my members here. More negatives than possitives. I really hope we dont sell ourselves short again.

 

[Jimmy Neutron]

Thats right. Our contract was open and we could of tried to negotiate real things we lost, instead we gave up more. Nver did undersatnd that. How a T/A was negative. I voted NO and went over every point with my members here. More negatives than possitives. I really hope we dont sell ourselves short again.

Again, that must start at the top, the picture is crystal clear that any UA bred person that runs this District will continue to treat US Fleet as nothing more than second class, as Delaney continued to prove this by worrying more about spending additional time (that we deserve) and additional resources (that we pay) for rather than enforce that P.O.S. contract in regards to this continual onslaught of out-sourcing of our jobs by letting the company make it's own rules in the last round of station closings!

Not much that side can say about that blunder, now is there?

 

[blue collar]

For now.

For now, yeah. Meanwhile, how's your guys' situation workin out? 7 years and counting?