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Old 04-11-2016 | 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by eaglefly
No rumor. They could do that because unlike a merger, the TWA transaction was structured as an "asset acquisition with an offer of employment". Not everyone got "offers" and ALPA was more interested in courting the AA pilots and threw the TWA pilots under the bus in trying, supposedly from my understanding, this being one of those ways. Of course, they were sued and lost.

There is a good lesson in that though and that is the consolidation of companies can be structured in ways that give leverage to certain parties and put other parties at a disadvantage. Depending on what happens with Envoy in the future, it may be Envoy ALPA that must make certain exceptions to contractual items which was a point in one of my previous posts, hence my skepticism of the PP being "bulletproof".
So in one sentence you say that AA mgmt structured the deal in a way that would allow them to rape and pillage certain TWA employees without recourse.

Then you say ALPA (who exactly, ALPA national or the TWA MEC, that part I'm not clear) was the one who was helping AA mgmt rape TWA employees.

It seems history is revised against everyone except the vaunted, righteous APA.
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