I see that Northwest airlines is threatening a strike breaking tactic used by many of the responsible businesses Wayne mentions to reduce the wages and benefits of their employees. They threaten to invoke bankruptcy proceedings enabling a court appointed administator to do the wage cutting inorder to circumvent union contracts. Thats Contracts; you know a good faith agreement between parties. The average mechanic who might fit Waynes description of the all around great guy will see a pay cut of over 26%. Thats from a 20 yr senior mechanics pay of 65k annually to 46k anually. Plus cuts in health and retirement benefits contractually agreed to. Sounds similar to your post Damir, right here in the good old U.S.A. People everywhere are the same snakes.