On Monday, if no agreement has been reached, Delta Air Lines' pilots will almost certainly go on strike, if their recent bluster is any indication.
Let's see:
- They are paid at the high end of the scale for pilots in this country, averaging around $150,000 per pilot in base salary.
- Delta has had cumulative losses of $13 billion.
- Delta has offered $330 billion in place of a pension plan to offset losses to pilots.
- Delta is asking for further cutbacks, which while lowering the average pay would still keep Delta Pilots in the top quadrant of salary ranges.
And in response, the pilots' union voted overwhelmingly to go on strike as early as Monday, April 17.
For those in New York, we have seen this happen before. After years of mis-management, sour relations,t, the death knell for Eastern Airlines was a pilots' strike.
Eighteen years later, after years of losses and poor management, there may be a pilots' strike....
Update: Finally, people came to their senses.
2 comments:
Remember when Unions were about helping workers who were slaving 16 hours a day for meager wagers? Well, I guess none of can because that's what they were like in 1912.
And then they complain when jobs get outsourced? Hmmm, I wonder why American companies are eager to look elswhere for labor?
I don't think I've seen a story that actually shows unions in a positive light in a loooooong time.
Heck, Delta and the NYC MTA provide enough proof of that lately.
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