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Article: Bankruptcy court asks: Are US Airways pay cuts necessary or inequitable?
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- October 12, 2004
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By Dan Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 12--When U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Stephen Mitchell considers US Airways' request for an emergency 23 percent pay cut for workers again this morning, he will face an Alexandria, Va., courtroom divided over the issues of survival and inequality.
US Airways' case -- and the take-home pay for thousands of employees in the Pittsburgh area -- hinges on a few basic questions. Does the bankrupt airline need the temporary pay cut to survive into 2005? Or is the company overreaching, asking workers to make sacrifices that are unnecessary and unfair?
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