An Opinion On “American Airlines Parent AMR Files for Chapter 11 Protection”
You’re a day late and several dollars short, Mannderblork. We went through the silliness yesterday of trying to blame unions for AA’s failure. No union has work rules that were not first agreed to by management. Many WSJ readers love to cite the joys of flying Southwest and probably don’t even know that SWA is a fully unionized airline. I haven’t seen SWA filing for bankruptcy. Have you? Let’s take just a couple of specifics: over-paid? Who are yoiu to make that determination? Unless you are the VP of Labor Relations for AA, you are just another yay-hoo with an opinion. over-staffed union plans? Same question applies. Do you even understand the concept of collective bargaining? That’s when the representatives of the employees meet with management and try to reach an accommodation that both sides can live with. If you’ve got the photo of the union president holding a gun to the CEOs head, please upload it and share with the rest of us who are not so prescient as you. You who only can blame a union (simplistically) for complex problems get to be annoying after a while. AA’s problems are too much debt management advice, management that isn’t nearly as good as what they had when Bob Crandall was running the company, out-of-control fuel prices, and a few dozen other things. If it were as simple and easy as you suggest, it wouldn’t have happened in the first place, or is that too difficult for you to comprehend?