Originally Posted by
Lewbronski
If you listened to the conference call yesterday, it struck me that GK made reference once or twice to the idea that ultimately all employees are beholden to the shareholders of SWA and that we need to take a 10% pay cut because we owe it to them.
The same tired excuses you hear from the mouths of the CEO’s of every publicly traded company anymore. It’s why Boeing is a hollowed out shell of what it used to be. Same with Ford and GM and GE and the list goes on and on. It’s why American workers are so justifiably furious. We have a stake in this economy. We live in it and try to raise our kids in it and hope one day we can retire with enough to live on. We see our wages stagnating but the stock market just keeps roaring along and the buybacks continue and the swindle continues.
**** Gary and his force majeur clause and his string of broken promises. I want him to have to sit down in front of the board and explain that he failed. I want all those gladhanders on the board to know that we know exactly what they’re trying to do. This goes to the heart of the swindle that’s been playing out right under our noses for the past thirty or forty years.
Why we’re not picketing over this is a freaking mystery to me.