Opportunity

Flight attendants celebrate the new global Delta Air Lines and the many opportunities they see on the horizon after the merger with Northwest Airlines.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Flight
• attendants
• Delta
• Air
• Lines
• Northwest
• Airlines
• AFA
• Contract
• Union
• Employee
• Free
• Choice
• Travel
• EFCA
• unions
• representation

[LARobMA]

While I have never worked for a union, the culture of negativity and confrontation it creates go against the many years Ive enjoyed going to work at Delta WITH management instead of against them. I have not paid a penny in union dues and have handed to me what other union F/As bargain and pay for.

I hope our colleagues at Northwest will give the Delta way a try. It is MUCH easier to get a union than to decertify one.

[WorldClassFAs]

Dear LARobMA:

Thanks for viewing our YouTube Site and we appreciate your views. We hope you come back often and see what other F/As have to say about representation. It is with open dialogue that we can build a mutual understanding of our issues and the facts.

I am not sure why you think that a union creates confrontation. The Pilots at Delta have a union and they seem to work with management fine. If the Pilots have a collective voice, shouldn't we have a voice?

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[WorldClassFAs]

Southwest Airlines is the most unionized in the US and they are always number 1. They find ways to work together that provides benefits to the employees, the company and to the customers they serve. We can be like that here at Delta. It is not us or them. It's our Delta. It's our Family. It's our customers.

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[WorldClassFAs]

And while in the past we may have been given what other F/A make, it is not the case any longer. On average, NW F/As total compensation is higher then that of Delta F/As, which is still lower then most other airlines.

Since the new Delta is now a World Class Airline, don't we deserve to be paid as the best?

Lastly, try it with a union! It is the same process to vote a union in or vote a union out.

Please come back again.

[WorldClassFAs]

dapoes: Why do you feel you would end up like UAW? Do you manufacture cars?

Seriously, a lot of the blame of the auto industry has been placed at the feet of management teams that ignored market trends and rewarded themselves excessively. Do you feel that the same is happening at Delta?

If you do, wouldn't it be prudent to get involved in a LEGAL way to have a say in your future?

[vita162]

Now more than ever Delta needs a union, wouldnt it be nice to have a contract that had work rules negotiated by flight attendants,

[769ha20]

A union is like any insurance..I have been paying on my house for 10 yrs and haven't needed anything--but when you do,you are happy you have it! AllDelta MGT has a contract--why not us?

[ProDeltaProAFA]

We flight attendants are AFA and we have the chance to work together to negotiate the appropriate contract for the world's largest airline. Pre-merger NW's total compensation is a bit higher than Delta's right now after bankruptcy, but we are still both at the bottom of the pay for major carriers. That has to stop and Delta's assurances that they will bring us to "industry standard" are not acceptable and Delta flight attendant pay and benefits can be changed at any time without a contract.

[patnofriend]

Yes- let's get AFA on the property and treat ourselves to the worst contracts in the airline iundustry. They can't even resolve the US Airways/ America West merger and that happended 4 years ago! Those flight attendants are STILL locked into their concessionary, legally binding , CRAPPY contracts with no way out in sight. They haven't even resloved seniority integration over there and it's been 4 years! Meanwhile, outr seniority is all ready settled - unless we vote AFA in.

[ProDeltaProAFA]

We do have a tremendous opportunity in this merger to move beyond our bankruptcy contract at Delta and finally bring a legally binding contract to Delta. Pre-merger Delta FAs won't even pay any dues until the majority of our joint group ratifies a new joint contract. What's to lose in that equation? We can seize this opportunity, together. We just have to reach out and do it.

[20980sun]

In effect all union FA's over the years have been carrying Delta FA's on their backs. We have been paying dues for them. They have been reaping the benefits of our contracts by Delta keeping up with the contracts so their FA's don't go union. It's time for Delta FA's to step up to the plate and join us for the betterment of everyone by all of us having a union and contract. Think of what we could do as a united group! VOTE UNION.

[slcerasa]

By saying no to a legally binding contract, you are saying NO to yourself, your coworkers, and your family. We all deserve the best. By working together as a collective group we can get there.

Otherwise we are handed the leftovers just as we have received in the past!

[notsopalephail]

they also arent represented by afa

[gfaul1978]

SO NO TO AFA!

[wrightwayj30]

ummmm...World Class airline with Third world pay! BS