Having just gone through the effective take-over of Brymon with its half-decent management by BRAL with its egocentric, aggressive and domineering management to create CitiExpress I would like to offer a few words of advice to you Goguys.
1. Get yourselves strongly organised and make sure everyone knows whats going on.
2. Stand up to bullying aggression. A victory or two at an early stage will ensure that you are treated with more respect later on when the substantive issues are discussed. In the case of staff travel...Consider saying NO. Look at your contracts. Do they have the right to remove it? Consider industrial action even at this stage.
3. Try to form a close alliance with your counterparts In Easy. The merger maniacs thrive on the principal of divide and rule. They love to crow that objection is just based upon a lack of willingness to accept a new culture.
4. Aggressively fight to protect what is good about your company...and there is much which is. Otherwise you'll just be swallowed up and squashed which is largely what has happened to us. Result, queues for the exit doors, sickness rates soar and a demotivated hacked off workforce who despises its management.
Good luck! You'll need it.