US Airways Asks Workers to Work for Free 12-29-2004

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: Steeplerot
Their CEO is making 11mil a year!
Slavery straight up. Your job can't ask you to work for free. You'd be better off at home unemployed getting a check then working for free.
Well if you would be stupid enough to come in for free I advise to make sure you take home whatever is worth your salary for that day before your job folds.
It's just as fair as them asking you to work for free.
(I don't work for free for someone else's money....ever!)

It isnt slavery. Now, if their employer was making them come in to work for free, that would be a different thing. Asking means just that... asking. You can legally ask for almost anything, except for asking a prostitute "how much?"

Also, if I worked for US Airways, I'd have been out looking for a new job long before this, and if I hadnt moved on by now, definitely wouldnt be coming in to work for free.

There "asking" you to come in, but if you don't you'll be the first to lose your job when the layoffs start.

 

[Riprorin]

Workers Respond to US Airline's Call for Volunteer Labor

by Voanews

Several hundred employees of financially-troubled air carrier U.S. Airways have responded to the airline's appeal for volunteer labor over the New Year's holiday weekend.

Dec. 30, 2004 (AXcess News) Philadelphia - Several hundred employees of financially-troubled air carrier U.S. Airways have responded to the airline's appeal for volunteer labor over the New Year's holiday weekend.

The airline hopes to avoid a repeat of its Christmas weekend fiasco, when it was forced to cancel nearly 400 flights and misplaced about 10,000 pieces of luggage.

U.S. Airways says the volunteer workers will greet and guide passengers at its Philadelphia airport hub in a bid to earn back lost goodwill. The employees will not be paid if they are working on their day off.

The airline blamed its Christmas problems on an unusually high number of flight attendants and baggage handlers calling in sick. Leaders of the flight attendants union say the number of sick calls was comparable to last year.

U.S. Airways filed for bankruptcy in September.

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I belive that the volunteers are managers, not rank and file employees.