Originally Posted by Joel Payne
NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy court judge on Wednesday rejected a motion by regional carrier Comair to void its contract with its flight attendants union, and ordered the two sides to resume negotiations.
Comair... did not bargain in good faith in contract negotiations with its 970 flight attendants, as required by U.S. bankruptcy laws, Judge Adlai Hardin wrote in his ruling.
Hardin noted that Comair called this amount "non-negotiable."
"With rare exceptions not present here, true negotiation necessarily requires compromise in each side's bargaining positions," he wrote. "When one side presents a non-negotiable, take-it-or-leave-it proposal, negotiation stalls because there is nothing of substance to bargain for when one side must bid against itself."
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Interesting. Forgive my ignorance, but has a judge stepped up like this to a company trying to void its contracts in Ch. 11 before? If more do, will companies become any more reluctant to use bankruptcy as a means of forcing concessions from their employees?