Flight Attendants Hold Union Vote at Delta

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Delta Air Lines passengers are being urged to show their support for flight attendants trying to organize at Delta. The mail-in union vote is going on now and handy "Pro DELTA Pro AFA" cards can be downloaded here. Undeterred when Delta's anti-union campaign defeated a 2002 effort to organize the airline's 14,000 flight attendants, activists regrouped and last year filed for a new election with over half the membership signing authorization cards with the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA). "Unfortunately, Delta has once again launched an aggressive voter suppression campaign," the AFA's Samantha Tate tells UNION CITY. And with Delta's just-announced merger with Northwest Airlines -- whose flight attendants do currently belong to the AFA - "it is clear that the executives are trying to use the merger to decertify the more than 40 years of collective bargaining that NWA flight attendants have enjoyed," adds Tate, "turning this into a two-part effort to protect more than 22,000 flight attendants at the combined carriers." Click here to see the YouTube video