Originally Posted by
hazelrah
Not necessarilly. The management of other airlines has effectively shown the way: 1) hold the line against wage increases, 2) use the RLA provision to draw the process out as long as possible, 3) threaten bankruptcy. So my prediction is Arpey will follow this playbook; this is what his bosses (the BOD) wants him to do.
Utimately, the bottom-line is that AA is still only marginally profitable. How could Arpey raise wages in this environment?
My point is that IMHO Arpey is now a lightning rod (as Carty was) that will prevent a successful negotiation and will be sacrificed to avoid a strike or other profit damaging actions by the unions, etc. Employees will get a scalp, a new person to look at across the negotiating table, some type of improvement of their current situation and a teaspoon of honey to make the medicine go down.
