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Yes, because they have a smart management team. While Northwest Airlines was busy trying to break their union and running themselves into the ground, SW Airlines was negotiating smart fuel contracts and ensuring their financial stability for years to come. Northwest Airlines no longer exists, now we have Delta who has tried every scab non-union shop their is and has farmed out their plane maintenance to China and other places and now they are coming back and hiring again. No matter what, it costs them more than just paying their union people to do the job right.
Really, we have the stupidest management in the entire world right here in America. They could seriously phuk up a wet dream.
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TWU Local 555 represents 8,400 Southwest employees. It says Southwest wants authority to replace up to 20 percent of them with workers provided by independent contractors.
Local President Charles Cerf said the employees have handled bigger workloads because of Southwest's policy of not charging for checked bags and that service would suffer if the airline used contract workers.
"Southwest has never been so adamant about wanting to outsource jobs and use contract workers," Cerf said.
Southwest spokesman Paul Flaningan said that Southwest "remains committed to negotiating a contract that protects job stability and benefits" of the employees "while at the same time protecting Southwest's long-term profitability." He declined to comment on specific proposals, citing ongoing negotiations.
Wallstreet will never let a good company just run and turn a consistent profit. They always want more, more, more. I'm sure that is the case with SW Airlines.
Some Hedgefund manager is putting pressure on the board no doubt to make more profit where there is none.
So they will hurt the company to get a larger return for one fiscal quarter.
Wallstreet will never let a good company just run and turn a consistent profit. They always want more, more, more. I'm sure that is the case with SW Airlines.
Some Hedgefund manager is putting pressure on the board no doubt to make more profit where there is none.
So they will hurt the company to get a larger return for one fiscal quarter.
That is why airlines should be regulated again.
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Net Income Applicable To Common Shares (All numbers in thousands)
Dec 30th, 2011 - 178,000
Dec 30th, 2010 - 459,000
Dec 30th, 2009 - 99,000
Right wingers are sick in the head for hating policies that get Americans fair wages. They prefer their soulless consumption and Chinese slave labor PLUS it upsets liberals! Upsetting liberals really takes all precedence over good policy because like children, the Teabaggers will gladly drink polluted water, blow money on an SUV they dont need and have corporations deregulated enough to wipe out peoples savings with market manipulation as long as it makes a liberal unhappy.
Yea.
1.3 TRILLION DOLLARS in unfounded liabilities.
That's the amount that states owe to public employees over and above what they have.
This union hate is so stupid. The big companies that do the big projects like Opus and Ames Construction wouldn't even think about taking on a big project like the new Vikings Stadium or a big bridge or anything major without the help of the major labor unions. When you want something done right, you get union people who you know are trained to do it right.
If you are roofing your house or building a deck, good luck finding a union contractor that does small jobs like that.
This thread doesn't even make any sense.
You mean that big businesses are FORCED to use and pay union wages.
What the hell does Walmart have to do with real union jobs like Electricians or pipe/steam fitters or equipment operators or steel workers? Did you even bother to read what I said on this subject?
You can crow against unions all you want but it's the smart companies who get the contracts to all the big jobs that DEMAND union labor! The thing with your GOP'rs is you really don't deal in reality at all, you are obsessed with your ideology that no one really cares about.
Let's review....
UNION STRONG members demand union wages for their labor, but choose to not hire other UNION STRONG people when doing work themselves, right?
There are THOUSANDS of union painters, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. that we can choose to use when we do a project at home.....the proof that union labor is too expensive is in the fact that people (including UNION STRONG members) simply WILL NOT HIRE THEM at the same prevailing wages that they demand.
When dems stop driving vehicles made in a non union shop built in a right to work state I may seriouly think they care. Till then , their actions speak louder then their words.
The Fascists hated Unions and educators. They gave the middle clas way too much power and Fascists wanted all the power at the top.
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