Instead, the company dismissed the ruling as the first round of a long fight.
This year, the company dismissed 400 employees, many without notice.
Last month the company dismissed 700 employees, or nearly a quarter of its work force.
A person close to the situation said yesterday that the company had also dismissed many executives.
The company has dismissed the $5 million difference as creating a potential tax benefit.
The company later dismissed him, but declined to say why.
The company has so far dismissed 5 out of 50 people who tested positive for drug use, he said.
The company has also dismissed 500 contract workers this year.
Soon, workers said, the company dismissed the union leaders and began pressing others to leave the group.
The following summer, the company dismissed more than 6,000 agents from a team of 15,200.
