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Southwest Airlines asks unions to accept pay cuts to prevent furloughs
Southwest Airlines is asking worker unions to accept pay cuts so the company can avoid furloughs through the end of the year. Southwest CEO Gary Kelly noted that his goal is still to have no involuntary pay reductions or layoffs in 2020 but that the company has decided to approach union representatives for concessions. (thehill.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The problem with pay cuts are the lack of snap backs should things change.
southwest has the opportunity to open the books fully, adjust the salaries at the top of the scale first, and act for the greater good of the line employees in a public manner, a first in the airline industry and one of the first in american industrial history. This would be a huge step in mutual trust and accomodation for the good of labor and management. If any airline could make this step, southwest is at the top of the list. Watch and see what happens.
Hopefully the unions agree. If the CEO and other management are taking pay cuts, others can too. There are reasons that former union members have voted for being non-union in a new company after their old company closed in part due to labor costs of union members.
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It is no longer online, but former steelworkers in PA voted 400-5 (or something very close) to not unionize as they only had to look out the window of the new company to see the previous company that they worked for. You do not have to believe it, but it did happen.
Only Strong collective Unions and government regulations can stop this predatory actions by CEOs and Corporations. Government financial support (Socialism)for Wall-Street and corporate CEO's but no support for Labor. People must stop supporting Socialism for Wall-Street and rich, it's counterproductive.