Mark McClain
Mark McClain
early good vote
(Bell) had good answers, but its too early to say if I'll vote for him.
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Every time (Northwest negotiators) get at the table and they think they have an advantage, they want to gut the contract.
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At this point, it is incumbent upon Northwest management to not squander our significant sacrifices, but to intelligently pursue a course that enables us to emerge from bankruptcy as a proud and profitable airline.
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Ocean State Job Lot is a godsend to us.
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Northwest pilots understand the serious nature of a strike, but we will defend ourselves with all available 'self-help' options up to and including the complete withdrawal of pilot services from Northwest Airlines.
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Northwest has always bargained hard, but ALPA has always bargained hard. We don't intend to gut the contract now.
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Northwest employees should not pick up an inordinate amount of the fuel costs.
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Thirty days is a very short period of time,
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It's not in the best interest of Northwest Airlines to operate in this type of environment long-term.
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That is not where we need to be, ... We're looking at other ways to satisfy their financial concerns without destroying our contract. ... We would like to get a deal but we will we will not do a bad deal in the interest of timeliness. It has to satisfy the concerns of our members.
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It's a sad day for Northwest. A lot of us have given decades of our lives to this airline. This is not where you want to see it end up. Now, here we are. It's a tragedy.
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Executive compensation is an obscenity that is thrust upon this entire society.
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It's a corporate shell game of transferring assets and franchise value to a new company.