Davis concluded that that Mesaba didn't negotiate in good faith and that it failed a legal test requiring it to be "fair and equitable" in spreading around the pain of its bankruptcy restructuring.
Mesaba President John Spanjers had warned Mesaba's 3,300 employees last week that they must reach deals quickly, otherwise the carrier would have impose cuts or stop flying. In a statement Wednesday, Spanjers emphasized a desire to reach agreements with the three unions."A strike would be as fatal as an orderly shutdown," Mesaba President John Spanjers wrote in the flier to 3,300 Mesaba employees on Thursday.
It's been a month since Mesaba has bargained with its pilots, and three months since the last talks with flight attendants. No talks with mechanics have happened since mid-July.
What makes things really interesting is that Northwest Airline's new feeder airline, Compass Air, has gained permission to start flying in late 2006. They will operate one single CRJ-200 in order to keep ahold of the flying certificate until they can purchase EMB 195's or even CRJ900's. Could this move by NWA and their often not so pretty relationship with Mesaba be coming to an end soon?
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