Posted on 02/16/2019 11:53:16 PM PST by blueplum
You must always, and only, blame union workers here at FR
Is that FreeRepublic’s policy or just your opinion.
The one thing about Free Republic is that you are free to disagree with any post (including this one).
So go ahead and defend Unions no one is stopping you.
I’m just stating that apparently management is never to blame here.
Perhaps the non-mechanic SW employees are demonstrating 'you won't mess this up for us." From all of yesterday's events, I'd venture a guess the mechanics don't have solidarity with the rest of the staffers. Just a guess.
Some airlines have non union maintenance centers in central America. I don’t know if Southwest has any there.Also Southwest is planning to serve the Hawaii route.
Don’t threaten to fire them. Fire them immediately and don’t allow them back into the maintenance areas to get their locker contents. Put their locker contents far away from maintenance areas so they can’t sabotage anything. They can’t be trusted not to do damage to planes.
I believe that if a group of people want to bargain collectively with a company for their services, they are free to do so. If, as a collective Union, they offer something that is of greater value to the company than having individual non-Union employees, the company would be wise to contract for that collective labor.
My personal experience with Unions, however; is not good.
I worked in aerospace for awhile. As far as I could tell, the only purpose of the Union was to preserve the Union. The union offered nothing in efficiency, skill, commitment or innovation. I was always in trouble with the Union for trying to promote those things.
In the midst of a Union Machinist strike, I was personally threatened by several individuals who just the day before I had been working with amicably.
I do not blame Union workers, I blame the Union. They need to offer something of value, not the threat of violence or damage to property.
After three years in aerospace, I move on to Silicon Valley and had an enjoyable career, inventing, innovating and moving technology forward without the drag of a union.
i thought the same. I don’t want them workign on planes i and innocent people may fly on.
Fine with AOC.
you are right, unions have a role, we forget that. It is just that we have few examples of where the purpose of the unions is not the union but it’s members.
I was offered a ‘regulated’ ie, union, job at the General Dynamics F-16 Fighter Factory in Fort Worth. Proud to say I turned it down. Never been a union goon and never will be.
“Now that I mention it, even Trump flew around in a 757 - not the 737 but also not a luxury business jet.”
A 757 can hold more gold fixtures.
so, you’re a non-union goon?
Hourly operations of a 737 dwarf any small jet.
Morph some more.
Bout morphed out. A former management goon!
Mahogany row was great ... the stress not so much
Ended up loving technical management.
Huh? Fuel consumption:
Gulfstream: 400 gal/hr
737: 800 gal/hr
LOL my mahogany row was in prisons
I was VP and GM running a Canadian subsidiary of a US company. There were times I said, “I surrender. I surrender.”
But it did no good.
California Youth Authority Was in Sacramento when at 11:59 PM Jerry Brown signed the bill for public employee unions. A cyclical bribery system for the legislature and the governor.
I benefitted as manger because of the employees got a bump they had to bump us so we didn’t;t make less than our subordinates. No one opposed the union contracts because we all benefited and the taxpayers were indifferent, still to this day.
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