Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
This is so typical of you alfa. You only use the side of the story that suits you. Everyone knows management has the exclusive rights to merge. Why did Delta come asking for help when USAir was trying to merge? Because management didn't want it and they hoped you could scare them away by threatening to be union goons! It worked!
Management has exclusive rights, but so do unions. Unions just have to be gutsy enough to use their exclusive rights. Not just be management suck-ups lilke you.
Carl
Carl, each post you show your ignorance more and more. Tell me, tough guy, what did you get from the NWA/REP merger other than the chance to screw over green book guys for 20 years? Did the union have any veto rights over the deal? Did the union even know the deal was in the works until it was announced?
We do have exclusive rights on some things. For instance our Scope section regarding mergers was not gutted. We had min block hour requirements that Airways was going to blow through when they cut out our entire MD-88 fleet. We told the creditors that we would hold them to our contract which had now been affirmed by the bankruptcy court and was not subject to additional 1113.
In this deal, management merely needed to comply with the contractual provisions in our contract regarding block hours. We also had some other contractual rights, none of which would have nixed the deal or even been a major impediment. Our agreement helped accelerate the rate of return from the merger and we took a portion of those profits in contractual gains and in stock, something that had NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. I urge you and your tough guy friends to read your contract and find out what rights you do and do not have in case of a merger.
Really, you huff and puff and thump your chest here, but you really are ignorant about many things. Never seems to stop you from bloviating though.