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A 6 page review of the article "Pilots Save Jobs by Offering to Take Less Pay". The author of this paper attributes that decision not just to the airline industry itself but to the labor unions on which airline employees depend. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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File: AM2_PPairUni.rtf
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The company has a long history of profitability, profitability which it attributes to its ability to complete successful with other major airlines. Successful competition, however, goes hand in
hand with the companys ability to keep its costs in check. Labor is a significant percentage of those costs. Delta pilots, in particular, are among the best compensated
in the industry. Perez (2003) reports that in 2003 Delta pilots were earning: "up
to 1/3 more than pilots at other airlines, with beginning pilots earning $48,000, and veteran Boeing 777 pilots earning up to $275,000 annually"
Unfortunately, Delta experienced some $2.87 billion in losses between 2001 and 2003 (Perez, 2003). A recent move by Delta pilots to cut
their own wages by nine percent and to eliminate a planned four and one-half percent pay raise for 2004 (Perez, 2003) was obviously made in consideration of Deltas growing need
to cut costs. That move, however, was orchestrated not by Delta itself but rather by the pilots labor union. This is not surprising given that one of the
primary functions of labor unions is to insure its members jobs. Without the volunteer pay cut it is likely that many of Deltas pilots would have found themselves in
the unemployment line. Labor unions evolved during the early twentieth century in response to the workplace problems resulting from the heavy
industrialization experienced in the U.S. as a result of our move from an agrarian lifestyle to an industrial lifestyle. Manpower was a prerequisite to industrialization and the United States
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