Haber's trump card is a unique understanding of aviation labor law as it relates to contract language and ALPA DFR. Those US Airways pilots were badly screwed. Many of them were already retired and are having their retirement annuity altered!
Some are within a few months or years of retirement and have no way to restore the retirement that they expected to have before they turn 60. This money was earned over the course of 30 years, it should not have been a bargaining chip for the association. The company had an obligation to protect and fund the pension. They failed their employees once again. USAir ALPA has had a long and distinguished history of failing its membership. Hopefully their failures will be recorded in "Flying the Line III" so future generations of airline pilots know what NOT to do.
US Airways and its current management team will never be successful until they learn to address their employees concern with regard to job security and retirement issues. Every time they use another heavy-handed threat of more furloughs, bankruptcy, etc the employees become more and more apathetic as to the future of the company.
And all this while Dave Siegal builds himself a house in St. Croix? They were better off with Wolf and Gangwal.
