Originally Posted by
Eagle2000
Makes me wonder if AC was willing to have some accounting trickery by deferring revenue and profit to show the unions, "look our profits are not so good" and sacrifice the share price in the short term.
Before you say how can they defer revenue and profit, easily done. Microsoft has been doing this for decades to make their revenue stream/profits look "smooth". All legit also!
It isn't accounting "trickery" it has to be a legitimate accounting recognition of the revenue, and AC would already be doing this to spread profits more evenly to reduce income tax payable not as a union negotiating ploy.
As to union "strike" announcements and "swag" that is definitely negotiating PR for both internal and external consumption (wind-up the work-force and threaten the employer).