{"id":194880,"date":"2008-08-12T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/12\/ual-pilot-union-demanding-removal-of-ceo\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T10:05:00","slug":"ual-pilot-union-demanding-removal-of-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/12\/ual-pilot-union-demanding-removal-of-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"UAL Pilot Union Demanding Removal of CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are saying that CEO Glenn Tilton has steered the airline, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/08\/11\/news\/companies\/united_pilots.ap\/index.htm?postversion=2008081114\">down a path to poor customer service, employee morale and financial performance<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is a negotiating tactic, or a legitimate concern for the company.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is a bit of both.  He&#8217;s an oil man, and the requisite skills in that industry are not really producing anything or providing a service, but rather schmoozing people so that you can put holes in their ground.<\/p>\n<p>That skill set does not translate well into any other field of endeavor, see Bush, GW, and Cheney, R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are saying that CEO Glenn Tilton has steered the airline, &#8220;down a path to poor customer service, employee morale and financial performance.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure if this is a negotiating tactic, or a legitimate concern for the company. My guess is a bit of both. He&#8217;s an oil man, and the requisite skills in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1023,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-labor","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}