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Essay / Labor Relations and Practices: Southwest Airlines
U&T Labor Relations Consulting Firm works with clients to provide expert and professional advice to resolve labor relations and human resources issues within of an organization. U&T strives to meet the specific needs of the targeted company. Our consultants work one-on-one with clients to identify key organizational needs, prescribe labor relations interventions and explain to our clients how to implement them. Labor costs can charge a business more than half of its operating expenses for the fiscal year. We help our clients maintain a competitive advantage by helping them reduce labor costs while increasing productivity within a business. Any business can succeed when labor costs are controlled. U&T provides services that include labor cost analysis, labor relations training administration, collective bargaining agreement consulting and administration, and mediation. Currently, labor relations consultancy U&T is completing a review of the Well's labor relations and practices. known airline, Southwest Airlines. Brief history: Southwest Airlines is “America's largest low-cost carrier” (Southwest, 2014). Southwest Airlines is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Southwest Airlines was founded by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher and was initially intended to serve only a small three-city area. "Southwest Airlines was incorporated in Texas and began customer service on June 18, 1971, with three Boeing 737 aircraft serving three Texas cities - Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, and became a major airline in 1989 when it surpassed the billion-dollar revenue brand (Southwest, 2014) Southwest Airlines is best known for its friendly staff and customers...... middle of paper ......stry/20140123-southwest-airlines-closes. -out-2013 -with-record-profits.eceMaxon, T. (January 14, 2014) Retrieved from the Dallas Morning News: http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/union-wants-to-bar-southwest. -airlines-from-putting-emergency-restrictions-on-use-of-sick-leave .html/Maxon, T. (January 16, 2014) Southwest Airlines Defends Requiring Union Members to Prove Sick Leave. Retrieved from the Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/business/airline-industry/20140116-southwest-airlines-defends-making-union-members-prove-illness.ece(nd). //swamedia.com/channels/Corporate-Fact-Sheet/pages/corporate-fact-sheet Tuttle, B. (March 26, 2013). "Southwest Airlines: We're not really talking about cheap flights anymore". From TIME Magazine: http://business.time.com/2013/03/26/southwest-airlines-were-not-really-about-cheap-flights-anymore/