Arthur Cordell wrote:
> Airline alliances lead to pilots in foreign carriers getting *higher*
> salaries. So going global need not be a race to the bottom, it can mean
> harmonizing upward.
I think this is a misinterpretation. Note that this is only about *pilots*.
It is nothing new that mergers lead to higher salaries in the *top* seats,
i.e. top management and rare specialists (such as pilots), BUT this can
hardly be called "harmonizing upward", because it goes at the expense of
the "lower" employees' salaries. Actually, the non-pilots (ground personnel
etc.) in Germany have vehemently protested *against* the pilot strike !
The WSJ article omitted this, to make the misleading point that "lower"
employees would benefit too. It ain't so. FG and mergers are about
*increasing* the wage *gap*, *not* about "harmonizing upward" !
Chris
