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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Northwest dicked the unions over and still is going bankrupt. The union is not the problem there.
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Certainly not all of the problem, but high labor costs are a factor.
As was the case in the 1970's when Doug Frazier, then president of the United Auto Workers, realized that some concessions were necessary to save Chrysler, concessions may be necessary to save the major airlines. Of course those concessions must be a part of numerous
sound business decisions and not a single answer to what are obviously highly complicated problems.
Unions are
part of the problem and I think they should be
part of the solution.
It might be good to point out that a few of the "low cost" airlines who operate with non-union labor have failed as well.