Bernie Sanders chastises American Airlines CE over contract breakdown with mechanics

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders says American Airlines' negotiating tactics with maintenance workers is "nothing more than corporate greed at its worst." Sanders had harsh words for airline in a letter to CE and chairman Doug Parker Wednesday, making him the latest politician to weigh into the ongoing contract dispute between the company and maintenance workers. "If American Airlines has enough money to buy back US$15b of its own stock, it certainly has enough money to pay its union workers a decent wage with good benefits," Sanders wrote in the letter posted to Twitter Wednesday. It's also not the first time Sanders has gone after Parker, criticising the airline leader at a union event in April. <br/>