US: Airlines, DOJ find middle ground on at least one topic

American Airlines and US Airways, which are currently in a legal battle against the US Department of Justice to merge, have told the Transport Workers Union not to intervene on the airlines’ behalf – a message echoing that of the DOJ, which made a filing Tuesday that said the TWU should not be given “intervenor status” in the case.

Last week, the union filed a motion to intervene in the case, along with an additional motion filed last Monday. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly gave the two sides until Tuesday night to respond, at which point both denied the motion.

In the airlines’ response, American and US Airways denied the union’s motion “because the interests of TWU and its members in this case are fully aligned with – and thus adequately represented by – the Airlines.”

The DOJ, in its filing made Tuesday, called the TWU’s motion “untimely” for its late filing.

The TWU represents 23,000 workers at American Airlines.

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