Commentary

A More Perfect Airline Union? Questions for Stakeholders

By CFIF Staff
Tuesday, July 17 2012

The airline industry is at a turning point. With expenses increasing, the industry’s big labor unions are desperate to preserve their old order. In fact, the situation has become so exacerbated that American Airlines’ unions have taken the extraordinary step of pushing their employer to merge with US Airways rather than allow the legal process of American’s bankruptcy reorganization to reach its natural conclusion. Now that American Airlines is open to merger possibilities, it is even more vital that union leaders, who are largely responsible for the industry’s…

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