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When economic times are good, management/labor relations are strained. When you have a 9-11 event that slows consumer confidence and CRUSHES an industry like the Airlines, relations are terrible because of the urgency of the economic disaster that now looms (bankruptcy). (The airline industry has ALWAYS been a roller coaster of an industry, btw. Even before 9-11).

If times were still good, NOBODY would care about management's perks except the union execs and some union members. These perks are not unusual in business, but are a major sticking point for unions. They always have been and I imagine always will be. It's the nature of distrust that unions have of management. By the way, wearing managements shoes isn't an easy job. You have to make decisions, and some of those decisions will always make someone unhappy. (Believe me, I was a Purchasing Manager for 18 years and dealt with folks at all management levels in the company. I also dealt with corporate employees, suppliers and subordinates). One could imagine that at the TOP management level at a company as large as AMR, those decisions can make a LOT of folks unhappy. Evidence this chain of events at AMR.

Just my 2 cents, and worth both pennies. :O)

I agree with you, Meek. But this "slip under the radar" and the way some are saying we were "blackmailed" into a rushed vote is too despicable to look the other way again.

These are new times in this country, and I attribute almost all of it to the leadership in the USA right now. When Clinton & Co. were in charge, look at how much corruption went on, and was almost allowed. Now that we have a leadership who prays and looks to the Bible for moral guidance, it's been trickling downward.

And yes...we would have much rather been hired at Southwest (couldn't afford the type-ratings back then) because of the fun atmosphere, the comraderie; again, look at the airline's CEO/leadership. Isn't his salary below 400k?