I worked for AA on the ground for a good while.
They decided to reduced flights into BRU and make staff redundant. What they could not understand was that the staff to be made redundant were overjoyed with the news.
Belgian regs of the time protected them very well indeed; something along the lines of redundancy pay, full pay thereafter for a good while, and everyone else would go on strike.
If you employ people, then they are not a commodity, not something to be dispensed with and taken lightly, and IMHO that is the way it should be. The term 'human resources' still wrankles with me.
Quite a few companies would do well to learn this lesson.
There's a very long thread on here about BA cabin crew, but the unhappiness felt, and justly so, by a lot of that companys employees, is also equally felt elsewhere, to the same degree if not more so.
You can only push people so far, and the price people want to pay for a product is not the be all and end all.