The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Local 357 rejected Republic Airways Holdings (RJET) last best and final offer (LBFO), virtually assuring bankruptcy for one of America’s largest regional airlines and sentencing its members to wages that have been frozen since 2007. The offer made to the 2,100 pilots at the company last Friday, was accompanied by numerous warnings that if this contract is rejected as a tentative agreement was voted down in 2014, the carrier may be forced into bankruptcy. But a failure of the LBFO is not the only reason it would choose bankruptcy. “Let me be clear, this

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