Originally Posted by
Cruise
Tell me again why you have all this free time to troll the message boards? Thanks for your concern for us.....but we neither want it, nor need it. ALL 121 carriers NEED legal representation. You claim it is unionism that is destroying the airlines? Hardly! It is poor management that, year after year, rape the company with their tremendously bloated salaries, poor management, and lack of foresight. Managements have used employee wage and work rule concessions historically have been used to 'save the company from liquidation.' Then, when the employees bear the burden of keeping the company afloat, management types reward themselves with bonuses. YGTBFSM! Never again will airline labor allow this to happen. Full pay 'til the last day. If the company sinks, then so be it! It is managements job to prevent this......hmmm, here's an idea: perhaps they could shoulder the burden of concessions since their supposedly a leader. Remember, don't ask someone else to do something, if you aren't first willing to do it yourself!
who are you to determine how much the top brass should get paid? ITS NOT YOUR COMPANY, ITS NOT YOUR JOB.
poor management consists of allowing the unions in.
Look at Walmart the unions have been knocking on their doors since the beginning. Walmart said no..they did not fold to the pressure, and i applaud them.
One of two things will happen when the unions come in and start squeezing colgan for money. 1:if you are lucky, the cost will simply be past on to the consumer and things will keep ticking along 2: the more likely scenario will be, since the economy is in the tank and flying is down anyway, that colgan will have to make it up in the form of lay off's and cutbacks.
There are talks going on to bring foreign airline competition into the market. competition that doesn't have unions. if this happens, u.s. carriers are screwed becasue they will not be able to compete. i.e. auto makers, the steel industry, many consumer goods industries.
I am sure there will be some nice short term gains from the union.....but you have got to look long term. what good does higher pay do you if the company is not there to pay. if you loose your job you have to start over somewhere else. Colgans pay scale will not get much higher, even with a union.
As far as representation goes. There are many lawers out there...go get on if you need one. i am sure they would love an opportunity wage a lawsuite against an airline. that must have dollar signs written all over it.