Unions are stupid... Mesaba screwed

[Chris_Ford]

I'm familiar with Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I took a class or two in college.

My question is, were they small businesses that reward those that do well b/c they're more like a family, or are they larger corporations like most airlines, Enron, Disney, etc that have hardly any connection with the peons and the CEOs? The only small business I've ever had the opportunity to work for was my dad's in HS, so I was a bit biased there. The only other companies I've worked with were large corporations who were more concerned with money and how many people we could get through in an hour than the people working there. The shining exception, however, was Southwest. But, you said outside the airline industry......

I'm specifically thinking about Sears when I worked there. But again, my work experience has been limited to those typical teenager jobs. However, I know some people who love where they work and some who hate it. I guess it's partially outlook on things.

 

[Timbuff10]

Hmm so a pilot's biggest fear is furlough, and being laid off. This makes the company constantly use this as a weapon to get concessions and scare the pilots into giving it up. Results in a work group that doesn't trust their company right?

So I know other people in other careers that have good jobs, trust their company and make good money. If their company lets them go then they don't have to go to the bottom of some other company's seniority list. Instead, they go out and get another job that pays the same or maybe more right from the get go.

Would a national seniority list prevent this? I would think it would prevent the whipsawing that goes on? Yes, no?

 

[tonyw]

The more laws are created to try to "help" the situation, the more it will just make the process move slower, which is what is happening now.

I'm curious. Just what laws have been created that regulate the airline industry more in the past 20 years?

I've worked for more companies than I care to recall since I got out of college in 1990. Some treated their employees better than others. I'd say that smart companies realize that treating your employees well is good for the bottom line. It reduces turnover, and saves the company money since it costs a lot of cash to recruit and train new employees.

But there are a lot of companies out there who do not think long term like that and try to squeeze every last drop of blood out of their employees.