Mark McClain Quotes (24 Quotes)

Every time (Northwest negotiators) get at the table and they think they have an advantage, they want to gut the contract.

I think we can avoid bankruptcy. But people are going to have to step up to the plate and deal with the realities of the financial situation.

He was a hardworking man. He volunteered. Pleasant Valley has a soup kitchen on Thursday. He worked every Thursday. He'd help out with Malta. He used to come out with us even. But he wouldn't give up the drinking, so we had to ask him to stop coming out with us.

That is not where we need to be, ... We're looking at other ways to satisfy their financial concerns without destroying our contract. ... We would like to get a deal but we will we will not do a bad deal in the interest of timeliness. It has to satisfy the concerns of our members.

There is no point in saving Northwest Airlines if a significant number of our members lose their jobs.

We continue to meet with Northwest management in an effort to reach a consensual agreement, but the outcome will be decided by management's actions at the negotiating table. Our goal is not to strike, but we will retain all legal self-help options if management forces our hand.

(Bell) had good answers, but its too early to say if I'll vote for him.

It's a corporate shell game of transferring assets and franchise value to a new company.

We will not allow management's hired guns to use the bankruptcy process to take away essential job protections and outsource jobs we have offered to perform on a cost-competitive basis.

It's a sad day for Northwest. A lot of us have given decades of our lives to this airline. This is not where you want to see it end up. Now, here we are. It's a tragedy.

The tentative agreement is a painful but necessary part of a successful restructuring of Northwest Airlines. If all of us can distance ourselves from these recent labor struggles and focus on ensuring the future success of Northwest we can begin looking forward to our emergence from bankruptcy as a proud and profitable airline.

Northwest has always bargained hard, but ALPA has always bargained hard. We don't intend to gut the contract now.

We feel that we can get a better settlement in negotiations voluntarily with Northwest management than we can get through the bankruptcy court,

Northwest is running out of time. New labor agreements will be in place this fall either voluntarily or through the bankruptcy court. We think we can fare better through voluntary negotiations than by having an agreement mandated by a bankruptcy judge.

There is only so much blood that you can squeeze out of a rock.

If we strike, the company will be liquidated.

We assume that discussions may occur among the remaining airlines in every possible combination.

Ocean State Job Lot is a godsend to us.

Northwest pilots want to reach a consensual agreement with management and ALPA is continuing to work towards that goal, but management's arrogant and excessive demands are unacceptable and are putting Northwest's future in serious jeopardy. Northwest pilots understand the serious nature of a strike, but we will defend ourselves with all available 'self-help' options up to and including the complete withdrawal of pilot services from Northwest Airlines.

We're willing to reach a consensual agreement that satisfies Northwest's need to be competitive. But Northwest is trying to bust the union. They're trying to undo decades of collective bargaining.

Despite todays filing, the collective bargaining agreement between ALPA and NWA remains in full effect. We expect NWA to honor the spirit of the agreements it made with pilots who have invested so much in their company.

We've been trying to stay out of bankruptcy for three years now.

We do not want to strike. We want to reach a fair consensual agreement with NWA management. Unfortunately, Northwest management is forcing our hand so we must be ready for all possibilities.

Executive compensation is an obscenity that is thrust upon this entire society.