But it looks like some of her would-be colleagues over at US Airways have a different perspective. A recent article detailed how US Airways people are frustrated with their CEO has ignoring them and making deals with our unions here at AA:
"Discord at US Airways runs counter to the image of union- management unity that Parker has sought to project. He moved in April to win support of American labor groups, which failed to agree on cost-saving contract concessions in talks starting as long as five years before AMR’s Nov. 29 Chapter 11 filing.
“Employees are a foundational issue,” said Deborah Volpe, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA at the former America West. “If you don’t take care of the foundation, then everything else tends to crumble eventually."
It sounds like Parker has been totally ignoring his foundation over at US Airways. By spending his time cosying up to Laura Glading and other union leaders at AA, he has angered the people whose support he needs to get a merger completed.
And to compound that, US Airways last merger (with America West) still hasn't been finalized. The flight attendants work as if they were at two separate airlines, more than five years after the "merger".
Do we want to walk into that level of chaos and confusion in a merger? We know why a merger would be good for Laura, but she has not explained why it would be good for the rest of us. While she collects her fat union salary, we'll be fighting hub downsizing and base closures that Parker would insist on to save the "new" American Airlines money.
Very informative. Thanks for keeping us in the loop. I knew there was more to this merger craze and Parker love affair that meets the eye!
ReplyDeleteWhat is becoming more and more obvious is that US needs AA desperately, not the other way around. When people are desperate they make big promises. Laura fell for this hook, line, and sinker. But she is so arrogant that she will never ever admit that she was had. This is what we have to deal with folks!
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ReplyDeleteParker cosying up to Glading? Glading is as republican as they come. We need to think long and hard before we lay down with such a scuzzy type as the APFA. Scum-bags.
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