The problems with the Airline Industry

[doh]

boeingman, right on! Pubs, you are partly right too. But, Leo Mullin is the one who told the pilots "a contract is a contract" when he was restoring pay rates for every one else. The company was wildly profitable and he told them to take a hike. Now that he could use a little help, they are essentially telling him "a contract is a contract." He was short sighted and caused his own problem. General, correct me if I am wrong here, but Leo was the man when that took place, right?

 

[Publishers]

contract

A contract is a contract,,,,,, but then again, contracts are renegotiated all the time by everyone.

The points remain the same.... in the case of national disasters or other events= labor and management have to find a way to deal with it before a ton of that companies assets are pissed away.

In the case of United, the assets that were being pissed away were the shareholders like ----- AH! the United Employees.

Compare that with like Air Tran or Southwest, or anyone else that had the good sense to come up with a plan and had decent labor negotiations.

What has to be continually reminded about is that companies survive because of shareholders and not management or pilots. To have the shareholders get shafted and watch while you fail to adapt to a new situation is irresponsible and you deserve what you get. Ask some of that 90% of all airlines that bought Boeing airplanes that are not here anymore.

 

[Tim47SIP]

Clarification

General and Doh-

Just to clear something up. The reason "A contract is a contract" was even stated was because it was first used by DALPA in 93. In 93, Delta went to ALL of it's employees and asked for a 5% reduction in pay. All but one group agreed. The pilots group said NO, "A contract is a contract". Then in 95 when Delta reinstated original pay rates to those individuals that took the cut, DALPA said Hey, "me to!". This is when management stated "A contract is a contract" since DALPA never took the 5% reduction to help out the company.

Not that management doen't deserve a lot of critisism as they deffinitley do and many times untrustable. I just hear this term brought up quite a bit as a defense, when it is an invalid defense.