FD109
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Re: proud
Publisher,
You're starting to lose me again. The ONLY way that employees can deal with an abusive, uncaring, or inept management is as part of an organized group. For you to say that dissatisfied employees should simply "leave and go elsewhere" indicates either extreme naivete or elitism on your part. I was beginning to think better of you; you disappoint me.
If your wife was, as I assume, one of Eastern's non-contract employees, she was reasonably well paid and well treated--pay and working conditions similar to her unionized counterparts at other airlines. She received that treatment not because she had personally negotiated those conditions with the corporation, or because the corporation especially liked and respected her. She received that treatment because the organized-labor groups at other airlines had negotiated decent working conditions and pay with their employers. Eastern basically matched union pay/benefits to keep their non-contract employees out of a union.
Perhaps some of those people who are not interested in being part of an organized group, or who feel that being a union member is "beneath them," should think a little more globally and realize that they too are benefiting from the efforts of organized-labor groups.
As enigma points out in his new thread, management elitism is rampant, and I would suggest that "non-union-employee elitism" is rampant as well. I'll have some respect for that when I see the non-union elitists refuse to take the pay and benefits that a labor group somewhere has negotiated for them.
Publisher,
You're starting to lose me again. The ONLY way that employees can deal with an abusive, uncaring, or inept management is as part of an organized group. For you to say that dissatisfied employees should simply "leave and go elsewhere" indicates either extreme naivete or elitism on your part. I was beginning to think better of you; you disappoint me.
If your wife was, as I assume, one of Eastern's non-contract employees, she was reasonably well paid and well treated--pay and working conditions similar to her unionized counterparts at other airlines. She received that treatment not because she had personally negotiated those conditions with the corporation, or because the corporation especially liked and respected her. She received that treatment because the organized-labor groups at other airlines had negotiated decent working conditions and pay with their employers. Eastern basically matched union pay/benefits to keep their non-contract employees out of a union.
Perhaps some of those people who are not interested in being part of an organized group, or who feel that being a union member is "beneath them," should think a little more globally and realize that they too are benefiting from the efforts of organized-labor groups.
As enigma points out in his new thread, management elitism is rampant, and I would suggest that "non-union-employee elitism" is rampant as well. I'll have some respect for that when I see the non-union elitists refuse to take the pay and benefits that a labor group somewhere has negotiated for them.
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