It is tempting to ask employees (with other unions) for their opinions during tense contract negotiations, but we were told that this is a very touchy, delicate subject to bring up at work. It could easily lead to awkward misunderstandings and embarassing problems in front of our passengers: they often hear flight attendants bitching about their jobs, and do not enjoy hearing it.
That is quite common at this company, and with a mgmt which takes forever to settle contracts, morale is almost always sinking somewhere around this airline-this has very often contributed to Wall Street's lack of confidence in our stock price.
A lady at a car repair shop here told me about her BOS-MEM flight and how many negative comments about mgmt which she overheard from the crew on their gray leather jumpseat, while the lady and her daughter were in first class.