When are we going to learn to keep the well being of people before the well being of corps? Probably when we could afford the $1,000 ticket that used to cost $200. Clay - SEA -----Original Message----- From: Bahadir Acuner [mailto:bahadiracuner@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 7:12 AM Subject: Re: SFGate: Alaska Air shuts Oakland base/340 maintenance workers laid off by troubled carrier Looks like the norm these days: - Fire your employees with bargaining power - Replace them with contractors with no or much less benefit with no unions. When we are going to learn to keep the well being of people before the well being of corporations? BAHA Fan of touch of socialism