DesertFalcon
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More pain, less pay for US Airways employees
Sunday, October 03, 2004
By Dan Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Kelly Hall, a US Airways telephone operator who retrieves lost luggage for passengers, is afraid of what will happen if she is forced to take another 23 percent pay cut.
"It is just scary," said the 43-year-old airline employee, who lives in McKees Rocks and makes $17,825 working part time for US Airways at an office park near the airport.
"There will be no way I can afford it," Hall said.
The knife could fall as soon as Thursday, when a U.S. Bankruptcy judge will consider US Airways' request for a six-month, 23 percent pay cut, enough to raise $200 million and carry the airline
through the lean winter travel season. But as the date draws closer, Hall and thousands of other Pittsburgh-area airline employees who made sacrifices during US Airways' first bankruptcy in 2002 are wondering how they will be able to manage their household finances with even less money this time around.
See the rest of the story and the new US Airways payscales here:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04277/389094.stm
Sunday, October 03, 2004
By Dan Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Kelly Hall, a US Airways telephone operator who retrieves lost luggage for passengers, is afraid of what will happen if she is forced to take another 23 percent pay cut.
"It is just scary," said the 43-year-old airline employee, who lives in McKees Rocks and makes $17,825 working part time for US Airways at an office park near the airport.
"There will be no way I can afford it," Hall said.
The knife could fall as soon as Thursday, when a U.S. Bankruptcy judge will consider US Airways' request for a six-month, 23 percent pay cut, enough to raise $200 million and carry the airline
through the lean winter travel season. But as the date draws closer, Hall and thousands of other Pittsburgh-area airline employees who made sacrifices during US Airways' first bankruptcy in 2002 are wondering how they will be able to manage their household finances with even less money this time around.
See the rest of the story and the new US Airways payscales here:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04277/389094.stm
