This turmoil makes clear why Delta and Northwest management want a seniority deal before they announce a merger.
Within our client management department, we have no fewer than nine working level seniority designations: account executive, senior account executive, account manager, senior account manager, associate account director, account director, senior account director, group account director and business director.
This requires both union and management leadership to rethink seniority rules, job classifications, pay scales and other issues, for they all affect employee mobility.
The Delta and Northwest pilot groups, who were asked by management to negotiate a seniority agreement before a merger deal could be announced, share a problem with their contentious colleagues: there is an age mismatch, with Delta employing the younger group.
In high-tech's world of profit-sharing, stock options and upward mobility, the anti-management, anti-intellectual, and seniority system world of organized labor seems like something from the Dark Ages.
The report, however, said the railroad should rethink the way it promotes people to be supervisors in its customer-service center, focusing on customer service and management skills, instead of just seniority.
The decision by Delta management to make securing employee seniority a precondition of the deal — a decision The Deal.com says has been privately questioned and even ridiculed by Delta's rivals — has seemingly painted the company into a corner now that pilot talks have fallen apart.
It recommended teaching principals to better hold onto "irreplaceables" and to "counsel out" low performers, and revamping policies around teacher management, such as tenure and seniority.
Participants included nurses and physicians from surgery and obstetrics-gynaecology departments, clinical services staff (e.g. pharmacy, microbiology), administrative staff and hospital management, of differing levels of seniority (Table 1).
There was no significant effect of place of training and seniority on the management plan, neglect of the patient, right to override the right of the family, the best defining conditions for the patient's death or abuse of the code.
Pilots at Sabena are planning a full-day strike on Thursday to protest management's refusal to accept a seniority plan, the Belgian Cockpit Association said.
