American Airlines workers protest job, pay cuts

They lost my bags-so who cares about their incompetent butts.

Was on a AA flight to Asia a few years ago. While the flight attendents sat around reading the paper, the toilets were dirty and the service was bad. Will never fly AA again.

What do you want? The company went bankruptcy because they did not have money. Move to other company.

Workers please choose your actions carefully. I have been out of work for 18months. At 57yrs of age nobody wants you. My wife has had no pay raise in 4 yrs. She works 24yrs/wk. My extra income comes from collecting cans Good luck..

Now they want more from the workers so managment can make more please people look at the facts corporate Greed is what this is really about

In 2003, American’s parent company, the AMR Corporation, managed to avoid a bankruptcy filing after its employees agreed to concessions that totaled around $1.8 billion ( $800 per month per Mechanic) and Management took huge bonuses the next day. In recent years, the airline has unsuccessfully sought new concessionary contracts

I feel for the workers. This seems to be the new reality of things and it stinks.

competition is great unless it hurts me. now we have a race to the bottom. more homes for sale???

"that preserves tens of thousands of jobs" ... in another country. Who cares about quality of service? It's just AN AIRLINE. I wouldn't fly on one of their planes if someone's life depended on it.

don't mess with the pilot....they already drink while they fly....we wouldn't want them to go into a state of depression and drink more..

What part of bankrupt do these workers not understand?

These workers had a chance to wise up, the company was in trouble and one of the last airlines to not go bankrupt, the company asked you all to take pay cuts to avoid this now. You and your unions said NO. You are getting what you deserved. Sad, but thats the world now, you need to realize jobs for certain people pay less.

Poor Management will equal poor results.

This downsizing of America did not start with American airlines and will not end with American airlines either. We have been doing this since free trade and ronald reagan started it with global competition. Problem is it has not hit the colleges or the health care areas yet. Mostly because both of those entities have a support system in place. Colleges have student loan programs and grants, health care has shared expense in insurance. Best way to get both of these costs in line with the rest of America, remove the support systems.
If both industries had to fly on their own with what people can pay, like American airlines then those industries would rapidly go thru this downsizing of salaries overnight.

This is what needs to happen to the Public School Teachers Union lay offs,pay cuts,benefit cuts and end pension plans and work longer hours welcome to the real world that tax payers live in.

without the union. my dad is out of work thanks #$%$

This is hirarious. These are the same pinheads that were picketing for excessive pay/benefits/pensions while leaving passengers stranded for all those years.

This is exactly what should happen to the government public sector union employees. They get fat pay, fat benefits, and fat retirement all on our backs. They just keep coming back to us for more of our tax money. This too will end.

I am not against workers rights, but come on, being a stewardess is not a 40 year career. Let the young kids do it for a while, then go get a real job. It was like when teachers were giving up their careers to work at disneyland. We fly to hawaii alot on American, OMG., the service is so bad it is painful. If your lifes dream is to pass out cokes, work at McDonalds.

You ought to be happy you have a job. You could always be living in Greece or Italy.