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DOUG PARKER: Deregulation [begun in 1978] is finally sorting things out. There are far too many carriers flying far too many seats, based in part on labor contracts that are out of line with what customers are willing to pay. And the combination of aggressive low-fare airlines and some of the highest fuel prices in history is crippling...
PARKER: It's not so simple. It's true that tensions between labor and management have been a problem for decades. There was--and still is at some airlines--a great deal of mistrust. At America West, for example, we have spent an extraordinary amount of time over the past several years just talking to our employees...
...When trains run slowly, sit in terminals and don't get where they should be on time, productivity is lower," says railroad analyst Donald Broughton of AG Edwards, "but labor costs, maintenance and equipment expenses rise, and that cuts into profits...
...addition to dealing with the University’s historically tense labor situation, Hausammann also faces the challenge of defining a position created only last year by University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Emma S. Mackinnon ’05, member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), said that the centralization of human resources could be a negative change...