“Clearly, American Airlines knows it won’t prevail,” the CWA said in its response. “But stalling and blocking agents’ democratic right to vote is all part of the airlines’ bigger plan, to use bankruptcy to devastate the jobs, benefits, working conditions and bargaining rights of all workers at the airline.”
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2012/06/cwa-asks-what-is-american-afraid-of.html/