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Buffett's NetJets Wins Agreement From Pilots Union on Contract
2015-12-21 00:06:57| Airlines - Topix.net
NetJets pilots carry signs during an informational picket outside the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 2. NetJets, the luxury aviation business at Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., just won over its pilots union, ending a dispute that's stretched on for years. Members of the NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots, which represents more than 2,700 pilots who fly for the business, voted to ratify a new contract with the company, the union said Sunday in a statement.
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Buffett Bites Back at NetJets Pilot Complaints, Clayton Homes Critics
2015-05-03 04:32:42| Telecom - Topix.net
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett confronted accusations today at his standing-room only shareholder meeting that two of his subsidiaries are feeling the heat from unhappy employees and dissatisfied customers. More than 100 NetJets pilots wearing their uniforms marched quietly outside the buzzing CenturyLink arena where the meeting was held.
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NetJets Unrest Puts Warren Buffett in a Rare Pinch
2015-01-06 05:31:43| Airlines - Topix.net
On a Saturday in mid-November, NetJets Inc. hosted several hundred of its wealthiest customers in the ballroom of the luxury Wynn resort in Las Vegas, where guests played poker alongside Warren Buffett with $950,000 in prizes at stake. Outside, dozens of uniformed NetJets pilots picketed against the private-jet company.
Teamsters: NetJets Threatens To Fire Middle Class Workers On Behalf Of The Global Super-Rich
2014-11-12 20:45:30| Airlines - Topix.net
The "NetJets' threat to terminate middle class workers is just the latest example of this out-of-control, multi-national corporation trying to coerce and intimidate its workforce into subsidizing the global super-rich," said , President of Teamsters Local 284. "The employees we represent will not give up one penny so a Wall Street banker or CEO can take a cheaper vacation on a private Gulfstream jet."
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NetJets founder sells helicopter leasing company he co-founded
2014-10-14 16:17:49| Airlines - Topix.net
He's the clever entrepreneur who started the private jet fractional share company NetJets in the 1980s and sold it to Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway in 1998 for $725 million. About four years ago, Santulli assembled a group of former NetJets executives and raised $500 million to buy a fleet of helicopters and lease them out to oil and gas drillers and emergency services providers.
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