Originally Posted by
Leroy Smith
And to be clear, I don't expect any increase above inflation.
But it is a failure of management (verb) to be asking for concessions. It is the easy course of action for the good-for-nothing MBA types so full of "management theory" that are taking over American industry. Get a short-term cost savings today (to boost earnings or stock price or whatever) while actually dismantling the operation over the long term.
Except that none of our management [noun] have an MBA or really any formal business training. But they do read the trendy management paperbacks, the RAA talking points, and follow the crowd.
Originally Posted by
Leroy Smith
Each of us can cost or save the company more in ONE DAY of normal ops than any ANNUAL change in compensation that might be negotiated. And that is not doing anything unusual or out of the ordinary, just all the little things that are discretionary within SOP or not covered by SOP. No being "extra safe", nothing unusual - just day to day stuff that depends on our personal level of "give a $#!7". But none of those effects will show up on a spreadsheet.
The message from Management (noun), from Mainline management and to some extent from mainline members of our own union: you are not valued.
Read it again:
"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed."
Management can be productive, can nurture strength, can make an operation better. More often, it is parasitic. Sometimes a symbiotic parasite, but ....
It's going to come to a point very soon that between mainline telling us we're worthless subcontractors, and regional management telling we don't even deserve the measly compensation we currently have, everyone's "give a $#%" reserve you describe is going to deplete, and management will get what they have coming to them. But only then will they learn.