Originally Posted by
Tropical
And the AirTran MEC also agreed to a staple with SWA, as the pilot groups sole bargaining agent. That would be a hard nut to crack in a rogue lawsuit. It has been done and it can be done again. In all of the recent contentious mergers it was because the union refused to go along with it
The AirTran/SWA was not a staple. It was, in some ways, unfavorable to parts of their seniority list, but it was not a staple.
Same goes for the TWA/AMR merger. Ugly, yes, staple, no.