Papa Woody
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Same Sh!t, different Sh!tbags....
I'm almost physically sick.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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Same Sh!t, different Sh!tbags....
I'm almost physically sick.
In seemingly unrelated news, the FAs have decided that they will merge their lists by DOH.
This was published in the Delta Daily Dribble. I'm surprised more wasn't made of it.
Nu
The story I was told was that the MEC Chair is the "Grievant" in all greivances. Therefore they are settled to his satisfaction.
In related news ...
Delta CEO gives bleak assessment of demand
Delta Air Lines chief gives bleak assessment of air travel demand
Harry R. Weber, AP Airlines Writer
Thursday February 12, 2009, 6:50 pm EST
Yahoo! Buzz Print Relatedelta Air Lines Inc.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines Inc. gave a bleak assessment Thursday of demand for air travel amid the enormous financial strain that many Americans have been under in recent months.
In a recorded message to employees, CEO Richard Anderson did not specifically say the world's biggest carrier plans to cut more jobs or capacity than previously announced, though he did suggest the erosion in demand that the airline has seen has been very difficult.
"Passengers, our customers, are not buying tickets at rates they were buying tickets a year ago," Anderson said. "Obviously, we wish we didn't have to decrease our capacity, but we cannot fly our airplanes around at low load factors."
Atlanta-based Delta has previously said it expected about 2,000 employees to accept the company's latest round of severance offers that were made due to its plans to reduce systemwide capacity in 2009 by 6 percent to 8 percent. The window for employees to accept the severance offers closed at midnight Wednesday.
Anderson did not say in his message late Thursday how many employees accepted the offers or how many jobs the company would ultimately cut.
He did say that Delta would work through the numbers and look at who has chosen to take the packages and align that with the airline's needs.
Anderson said Delta needs to right-size the airline based on customer demand.
"The economy is very difficult," Anderson said. "It seems every day we read about companies announcing layoffs by the thousands."
He said customers are tightening their belts, not spending as much on vacations. As a result, Anderson said Delta will need to react quickly.
"A strong, durable airline is truly the only job security for all of us," Anderson said.
The voluntary severance payout offers were made to a majority of the 75,000 employees at Delta and Northwest's mainline operations.
The program is similar to one earlier in 2008 that Delta used to trim about 4,000 jobs. Northwest Airlines previously trimmed jobs of its own before being acquired by Delta on Oct. 29.
Delta and Northwest's mainline operations include 75,000 employees. The entire company, including regional subsidiaries Comair, Mesaba and Compass, has about 85,000 employees. The 12,000 pilots of Delta and Northwest, as well as certain management and administrative employees, are not eligible for the voluntary severance programs.
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I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Spare me the DMC - at least we stood our ground and didn't just role over and play dead.
No, you were slaughtered by the arbitrators who threw out every one of your proposals and methodologies. But you did stand your ground.
We still did way better than what you had intended for us in the opener.
You were confident in your posistion only after you cut and run in the spring. You were not so confident then and that cost us, all of us money and a better contract. Your fear of arbitration then led to loa19, which was a tradeoff btw King Moak and RA for a less costly contract but with his assurance that the company would not accept any sli(final say) that would put the y'all at an disadvantage due to the demographics. This is the only reason y'all all of a sudden embraced arbitration, albeit with a worse contract but insurance on seniority.