<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RobertS975:
The courts can, I believe, simply tell the unions what the deal is going to be.
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This is a common misperception. UA
can ask the Court to void the current contracts. The court
can do so.
What happens next is roughly comparable to the situation when regular labor negotiations have exhausted all avenues and "cooling off" periods etc... At that point, once the court has voided the contract:
a. UAL may impose whatever new terms it chooses.
but
b. The union may respond with any "self-help" action it chooses--- strike, go-slow, work-to-rule, etc. The action would be legal and perfectly in accord with the law, so the bankruptcy court would
not be able to stop it.
End result? Any significant fraction of the workforce who believe in FPTTLD will automatically get their way-- since any job action by them would be enough to sink a rickety UAL.