Delta attendants say 'no' to union

[MountainLaurel]

By a margin of just over 300 votes. My best friend was a NWA flight attendant and is pretty low right now, since he's pretty much losing most of his benefits.

In a major defeat for organized labor, Delta Air Lines flight attendants have rejected a union by a narrow margin.

The results, announced Wednesday, were 9,544 votes against the union, and 9,216 in favor of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) or other unions, a margin of 328.

AFA President Pat Friend said Delta's management ran "the largest anti-union campaign that this country has ever seen" and the union would challenge the fairness of the election and seek a revote. Delta rejected the union's claims as "ridiculous" and said it looked forward to integrating its workforce two years after the merger of mostly nonunion Delta and heavily unionized Northwest Airlines

If the result stands, it means that 7,200 former Northwest flight attendants, including 1,900 based in Minnesota, will no longer be represented by the union or be covered by their existing contact. Delta said it will announced a transition plan for those workers at a later date.

http://www.startribune.com/business/106629988.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl

[endless october]

1. i'm sorry to hear that your friend is losing his benefits.

[MountainLaurel]

5. He'll still have some

I think, but Delta also very different standards for things like maximum flight time, etc.

[upi402]

2. Kool Aid drinkers

The chickens vote for Col. Sanders, and against their own interests. Good folks are easy to fool.
I blame the TV News.

[Brickbat]

3. Disgusting.

All we want is a level playing field! GAH!

[blue sky at night]

4. hey no problem....why would we want a union...

we are getting the minimum wage...oh wait, they shit-canned that too! i would give anything to have a union before they are outlawed.

dumbfuckistan just got 9,544 new members.

[myrna minx]

6. OMG - what is going on?

:-(

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. exactly what KO predicted would happen

in his special comments in Jan right after the John Roberts said corporations could contribute unlimited campaign funds.
I went back and watched it again this am.

EXACTLY what he said would happen.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x521838

[myrna minx]

8. Oh dixiegrrrrl, i just want to cry.

:-(

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Yeah, I've had a knot in my throat for quite awhile now.

Esp. since I have grown sons who will have to live thru much rougher times than I will live to see.

[Omaha Steve]

9. LBN: Flight Attendants to Challenge Delta Vote

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4599509

[MountainLaurel]

11. That's good news n/t

[jody]

12. Delta (union-less) and Northwest (union) both went bankrupt but Delta recovered, absorbed NW and

provided jobs to NW's unemployed union workers.

Are those the facts?