Should United Workers Strike the Company Out of Existence?

[chequita guevara]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-united23.html

United cleared to dump its pension plans

April 23, 2005

BY MARY WISNIEWSKI Business Reporter
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In a big win for United Airlines and a huge setback for its labor unions, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. reached a settlement with the bankrupt carrier to terminate the company's employee pension plans.

[Provost Harrison]

It's f**king disgusting. The welfare of it's employees should be taken care of separate from corporate interests...I mean, this is people's future on the line here!

[Spiffor]

Don't you guys have a publicly paid retirement system that gives a decent standard of living?

[Admiral]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Don't you guys have a publicly paid retirement system that gives a minimal standard of living?

I corrected your statement for you.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
It's f**king disgusting. The welfare of it's employees should be taken care of separate from corporate interests...I mean, this is people's future on the line here!

Damn straight it's people's future.

Corporate interests like paying those creditors (and indirectly, their employees) whose products and services kept United flying (and it's employees employed) for years? So United's employees should **** the employees of it's creditors?

Maybe if United's employees had allowed the labor costs imposed by their unions to be competitive with other carriers, they would have been able to keep operating and paying their bills in the first place.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Maybe if United's employees had allowed the labor costs imposed by their unions to be competitive with other carriers, they would have been able to keep operating and paying their bills.

That's not what killed the airline. United was murdered by management, who spun off every profitable part of the airline. the parent corp of UAL is still profitable. The unions were stupid and allowed themselves to have majority ownership in UAL without having control of the board. They were robbed with eyes wide open.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
It's f**king disgusting. The welfare of it's employees should be taken care of separate from corporate interests...I mean, this is people's future on the line here!

Yes, those poor pilots, their 5-figure salaries will no longer be able to keep them afloat!

[dudemanjack]

Not every employee is a pilot.

[DanS]

They just stuck the US taxpayer with a bill for their excesses. We should be hanging them all high in the public square.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Trip

Yes, those poor pilots, their 5-figure salaries will no longer be able to keep them afloat!

Dudemanjack has it right, not all employees are pilots...also it is dishonest to renege on something they promised contractually...

[Jon Shafer]

All of the unions have been squeezing the company dry, be it pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, etc. They have directly contributed to the plight of the entire company in its most dire day. What about the other employees not in a union? If the entire company folds what happens to them?

[Dis]

yes

They don't deserve to operate.

In other news Southwest airlines continues to pull good profits.

It's called good management- and United doesn't have it.

[Agathon]

Yeah.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Trip

Yes, those poor pilots, their 5-figure salaries will no longer be able to keep them afloat!

I think you meant 6 figures. Even I make 5 figures.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Trip
All of the unions have been squeezing the company dry, be it pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, etc.

Yeah, the flight attendents have it so ****ing good that they have to have roommates to afford their aparemtns in the cheap section of town, and the people who work at the counters are just rolling in dough. Stop talkin' out your ass. It was management that bled UAL dry.