yahoo bizz - furlough article

[LearLove]

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080702/usa_airlines_pilots.html?.v=2

 

[JoeMerchant]

"But some employees, like pilots and flight attendants, are in a particularly tight spot because their careers are so closely connected to seniority at a single airline, which dictates pay, work rules, and routes they are assigned to fly. A further complication is that seniority does not transfer between airlines. A United pilot who takes a job at American, for example, goes to the bottom of American's seniority list."