The Transport Workers Union filed its objections Friday to the hiring of Bain, calling the proposed fees unreasonable and based on extracting concessions out of American Eagle employees.
AMR Eagle, which filed for bankruptcy along with parent AMR and other AMR subsidiaries on Nov. 29, wants to hire Bain to "assist in labor-cost assessment and negotiation," at a cost of $525,000 a month.
In its filing, the TWU called Bain & Co. ""among other numerous and overlapping layers of professionals, some of whom are entirely unnecessary and all of whom the Debtors propose to retain at a significant and unreasonable expense to the Debtor's estate.
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