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August 18, 2006
Airline Outsources Jobs; Advises Employees to Dumpster Dive
Northwest Airlines today announced that it is seeking approval for daily service between Detroit and Shanghai, likely for the purpose of ferrying American auto executives to their new, outsourced plants in China.
The announcement on the same day it offered an apology (see the LA Times to baggage handlers and other ground workers, who will soon lose their jobs after their union agreed to allow the airline to outsource their work, for advising them to eat food out of the garbage as a way to save money.
Northwest recently gave out a four-page booklet entitled "Preparing for a Financial Setback" to workers who face impending layoffs and pay cuts amid a corporate restructuring. The company's tips to soon-to-be former employees include shopping in thrift stores, taking "a date for a walk along the beach or in the woods" and not being "shy about pulling something you like out of the trash."
Not surprisingly, Northwest is in full damage-control mode, is no longer handing out the booklet, and has been removed it the corporate Web site. PLEASE somebody send one to me!
Stories
Reuters
CTV.CA (Canada)
LA Times
Posted by MJuhre at August 18, 2006 09:52 AM