home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: mn.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!hemlock.cray.com!rja
- From: rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Northwest layoffs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.105906.1069@hemlock.cray.com>
- Originator: rja@mahogany126
- Lines: 45
- Sender: rja@mahogany126 (Russ Anderson)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: mahogany126
- Organization: The 1991 World Champion Minnesota Twins!
- References: <1992Nov19.092215.7207@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:59:06 CST
-
-
- In article <1992Nov19.092215.7207@hemlock.cray.com>, n3884@cray.com (Pete Palmer) writes:
- >
- > The other night on the news it was reported that Northwest has now
- > terminated 2100 positions in 1992. Many of these positions were
- > high paying, including upper mid-management and pilots.
- >
- > Does anyone know how many new jobs they have promised with the Airbus maintenance
- > bases in the Duluth area?
-
- 1500.
- > I'm trying to see if there will be any net gain
- > in jobs for the state, or are we already in the red?
-
- At this point, the question is whether NWA survives (saving some jobs) or
- not. It's clear that for NWA to survive, they must become "more efficient"
- (cut jobs).
-
- > Obviously they needed to make these cuts to compete with the big guys,
- > but why was this never mentioned to MN residents when the
- > legislature was debating the MAC bonds last year?
-
- Because if the public knew the truth, NWA would never get the money.
-
- > Is the competitive
- > environment changing so fast that they didn't know they would
- > be cutting back or did the state do a bad job in assessing NWA's
- > position in the market?
-
- Yes. I don't think even NWA thought they would lose money this fast (from
- fare wars), but it was also clear that NWA was in big trouble (due to the
- huge debt from the LBO) before the bailout package, er, "incentives" were
- passed.
-
- I've also heard that the MN constitution is clear that public money cannot
- be used to fund private buisnesses. Does anyone have an on-line copy of
- the MN constitution?
-
- > --------------------------------------------------
- > Pete Palmer
- >
- --
- Russ Anderson | Disclaimer: Any statements are my own and do not reflect
- ------------------ upon my employer or anyone else. (c) 1992
- EX-Twins' Jack Morris, 10 innings pitched, 0 runs (World Series MVP!)
-