Originally Posted by
dudeskibro
Lolololololol. You must be new here. This company cares about one thing: money for executives. They do everything they can to rip off its employees and customers. They have no interest in negotiating with labor in good faith. They will drag out C2015 for years and this Union with grow tired and intimidate this pilot group into accepting a marginal TA.
You're just plain wrong. This company cares about making money for one thing: shareholders. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER COMPANY! Spirit is just like every other company out there, to make a profit, otherwise it'd be a..... ding, ding, ding, non-profit organization. (Except the NFL, and other like organizations that are actually for profit but somehow have managed to lobby for non-profit status)
Now, I'll grant you the executives in this company are major shareholders, so in a small roundabout way, they are looking to make profits for themselves, but to just unilaterally say theyre in it solely for themselves is a little short sighted.
That being said, the last time Spirit pilots went on strike, Spirit was a privately held company, that's not the case now. Spirit executives will be beholden to the shareholders and if you think shareholders and by proxy Wall Street analysts will stand for protracted labor negotiations, you're wrong. I'm not saying it'll be quick negotiations, and initially it'll seem like a good idea, but Wall Street likes stability and protracted negotiations with its most visible labor group is not stability.