Originally Posted by
FliFast
IMHO, successful furloughs for a company are like liquid heroin. If it works once to reduce headcount, avoid paying move packages, used for contract talks, or any other inflamatory union-busting it will be used again. For the bottom 300 this may not be your last furlough at UPS.
that is a statement i can agree with. While the company must exist (profits) for pilots to have jobs, the companies profit does not directly correlate to job security or pay. I would expect this to happen again. Perhaps ups has reached the maturity stage in its growth pattern.