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Monday, April 14, 2008
Plane in Vain Skybust! Oh well, it was good while it while it lasted-- the direct flights to Columbus from western mass. at @$30 a pop, the buffalo wings and the iced coffee, the other passengers all delighted to be on board. I just learned about this, though, the ugly underbelly of it all: Skybus was one of the few 100% non-union airlines in the United States at the time of its shutdown. It was facing a union organizing campaign from its pilots, who had collected enough signatures to hold a union referendum. The pilots were seeking to join Local 747 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, based in Houston, Texas. Because of the number of signatures collected it was presumed that the campaign would be successful. The election would have most likely occurred sometime in April 2008. Successful unionization could have severely undermined Skybus's below-market compensation philosophy and laid the framework for union activity among other Skybus employee groups. *&@# unionbusters! |