Transport Workers Union, Objecting to AMR’s Hiring of Bain, Picket Romney Campaign
TWU objects to AMR hiring of Bain & Company
TWU workers protested last Wednesday outside a forum held at Miami College's Wolfson Campus, where the Univision television network held a forum featuring Republican presidential hopefuls. (Photo: TWU)
TWU workers protested last Wednesday outside a forum held at Miami College's Wolfson Campus, where the Univision television network held a forum featuring Republican presidential hopefuls. (Photo: TWU)

Members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) picketed at various locations in and around Miami Dade County last week, as the Republican party prepared for the Florida primary election on January 31. The union, which represents mechanics and fleet service workers at American Airlines and regional subsidiary American Eagle, recently filed a formal objection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York to the hiring of Bain & Company by the bankrupt AMR Corporation. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a former executive with Bain & Company and CEO of leveraged buyout specialist Bain Capital until 1992, has drawn criticism even from fellow Republicans, most notably presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, for Bain’s record of layoffs and plant closings.