Originally Posted by shiznit

It's textbook management tactics.

Claim your costs are already too high.

Use public tactics to undermine the union/Negotiating Committee.

Have other employee groups sign on to cooperation so if the one group doesn't concede to management's offer they can enlist social pressure from the other employee groups.

Yay!! SWA is finally acting like a big, old, traditional airline!

Lather, rinse, repeat.