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NWA 'insensitive' tips for saving cash


Northwest pulls 'insensitive' tips for saving cash
Monterey County Herald By JEWEL GOPWANI
August 17, 2006

All the employees made these tremendous sacrifices and they come out with condescending material like this. Imagine that you expect to be laid off next month and you're fretting about how you'll make ends meet.

Then your employer hands you a list of money-saving tips like pulling items out of the trash and taking shorter showers. That was the case at Northwest Airlines for about a week.

The tips angered many more Northwest workers, who have taken steep pay and benefit cuts, and saw the list on the company's employee Web site.

'It was very callous,' said Bobby De Pace, president of the Northwest arm of the International Association of Machinists, which represents the ground workers who received the booklet. 'All the employees made these tremendous sacrifices and they come out with condescending material like this.'

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InterlineStopher said...

Northwest Air Apologizes After Cost-Cutting Advice Irks Workers

Northwest Airlines Corp. is apologizing to workers offended by company suggestions on how to save money, including buying jewelry at pawnshops, getting auto parts at junkyards and taking shorter showers.

Originally published in Update on 08/16/06.