Difficult negotiating with someone who only says no but that's what WW gets paid for.
No he doesn't. He gets paid to run the airline for the benefit of the board and shareholders.
Juggling HR is only part of his job.
If he can find a way of cutting costs and bringing the airline back to profitability, neither of those parties are going to care too much about the fate of a bunch of overpaid, underworked, troublemaking BASSA CSDs and pursers.