Delta's bankruptcy court motion: the taint of union-busting

damn right... i've been hollering about this for months... i'm glad a judge is seeing the same thing and calling them on it... it's digusting how bankruptcy has become the latest business strategy du jour...

The judge presiding over Delta Air Lines' bankruptcy said on Monday that the carrier's motion seeking to void its pilots' contract had the taint of "union busting."

"The issue is whether or not at this time I should permit the rejection of the union contract," US Bankruptcy Judge Prudence Beatty said. "One can talk about union busting and that is precisely what this kind of motion has the taint of..."

Her remarks came amid a testy exchange between the judge and Delta lawyer Jack Gallagher in which Beatty, who the pilots have in the past accused of siding against them, assailed some of the airline's main arguments.

Delta is asking the court to void the pilots' contract so it can force them to accept USD$325 million in givebacks, part of USD$3 billion in cost cuts and revenue increases it says it needs to stem its losses.

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