"Something has to change, and I don't think a replacement of the entire staff is the proper solution"
True. If a new management team came in to replace Spanjers and his cronies, it would be another "leader" handpicked from NWA. It would be
someone that NWA could control and pull his strings.
"XJ Management is building some fine looking palaces for them to hang out in, and expecting all us peasants to serve them."
OK, this is where I disagree a little. You see, WE built the fine looking palaces and WE built this place into the cash cow that it became. That is why it is
infuriating to see these clowns move in to a very good situation and destroy it with inept decisions, such as blowing money on Big Sky, World Com stock, Paul Foley, dumping 122.5 million into MAIR which was basically down the toilet since they have provided us with NOTHING in return, lawyers, consultants and advisers. They have squandered this airline's fortunes down to nothing.
When this team came in to run Mesaba several years ago, the stock price
was over 30.00 a share and did a 3 for 2 split to around 21.00 a share.
We also had over 850 flights at that time. Since then, the fleet has dwindled considerably, the number of flights have dwindled considerably, and the stock has dwindled considerably (down to 5.50.) There has been no good news
since they got here.
Now they want to cut our pay considerably on top of that. If they hadn't run this company so poorly, none of this should have happened. They like to point out that "poor Mesaba is losing 1 million a week." Yeah, and they just spent 10.6 million on their lawyers, consultants and advisers, too. None of that money should have been spent if they would have managed this
company properly.
So yeah, THAT'S why the employees want to burn this place down. We built it, so I think it's only fair.