Steve MacFarlane Quotes (22 Quotes)

The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.

If we hold the line, Northwest will have to come back to the table and provide a contract that is acceptable to our members.

Clearly Northwest Airlines would prefer a strike over an agreement, and it looks like they're probably going to get their wish.

Negotiations have concluded for the evening. At this point it is unclear whether additional meetings are scheduled.

I'm certain that (the mechanics union negotiating committee) will reject it if we haven't (already) because it falls well short of what we need. They have failed to even start addressing some of our needs.

Our negotiations with Northwest Airlines have ended and a tentative agreement has not been reached.

This evening Northwest Airlines proposed what they term as their last best offer. This offer reflects Northwest Airlines' consistent extreme position and leaves us with little hope of reaching a deal before tomorrow evening's strike deadline.

Our evidence is that Northwest is having a great deal of trouble keeping their operation running.

We all know that at some point an agreement must be reached. We also know that any tentative agreement is going to be extreme by any measure.

Northwest is doing absolutely nothing to indicate they want an agreement.

As airplanes break through the normal flight day, these airplanes need to get fixed. And if these guys can't fix them they get set off to the side. We're confident that over a period of time it begins to snowball, and they're going to have a real problem maintaining their schedule.

While we aren't looking forward to bankruptcy, we don't think it puts us in any worse shape than we are today.

I think it would be a miracle for us to reach an agreement during this round of bargaining.

Either way we lose. So we might as well take the strike and attempt to apply some leverage to Northwest and convince them that they really can't do it without us.

Clearly, they know what they're doing is wrong. If we challenge them in that situation, often they'll leave.

I'm absolutely convinced that the proposal that they made last night moved inches, where yards need to be advanced.

There have been times I think when Dell may have been the only guy out there that really still believed it could happen.

If they can find mechanics willing to work under the terms that Northwest wanted to pay, more power to them. We refuse to work under those conditions and we are prepared to walk away and start our lives somewhere else.

This is going to take some time. We never thought there was going to be an instantaneous effect from us walking off the job.

Mike Hurley has betrayed his union brothers and sisters. Mike now has to live with the fact that his co-workers will forever view him as a scab.

As opposed to their old last, best offer. Until you hear the word final, it really doesn't mean much.

We hit their target of 176 million, and again, Northwest, they do not want to acknowledge any credit for lost jobs.