From: "Bahadir Acuner" <bahadiracuner@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 2:45 AM <snip> > But, what you need to understand that for management, it's not about the > money, it's > about power and control. ALPA recently estimated that the Comair strike cost > Delta about $780 millon. Now the entire 4 year dream contract would have > cost them somewhere around $250 million, I think it was. So, Delta blew well > over a half a billion dollars to make a point. <snip> In the 1890's the Illinois Steel Corporation instituted an 8-hour day in place of the 12-hour (actually 11 and 13 hour on alternate weeks) day that was the standard in the steel industry until 1923 or so. They found it was profitable, because of the improved productivity. When J.P.Morgan and Andrew Carnegie took over Illinois Steel and merged it with Carnegie Steel on the way to forming United States Steel, Carnegie-Illinois South Chicago works went back to the 12-hour day. The bosses considered the shorter day to be morally degrading to the workers, so morality was put before profit. My father and grandfather both worked the 12-hour day in the steel plant. Gerry http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/africar/africa.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html