madrobin

Lost email

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:52:24 GMT

It looks like I may have lost about 70 emails over the last seven days. If you sent something that I haven't answered, particularly if it was large, please resend it.

Bad labor relations, taken to an extreme

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:05:19 GMT

2005. Useless Air and America's Worst merge.

May 2007. Their pilots, still under separate contracts, can't figure out how to merge seniority lists. The ALPA, representing both groups of pilots, has an arbitrator figure it out. The old USAir pilots don't like the result.

April 2008. Old USAir pilots vote out the ALPA, replacing it with a union who's constitution says it will fight for the seniority system they want.

Old America West pilots get pissed and start acting out.

Now: the new union sues its own members under RICO.

Good ideas taken to extremes

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:55:50 GMT

Fun with industrial machines.

Now imagine what you could do with 100 of them.