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Delta Airlines
Buying Union
Fly the union-friendly skies, if you can find them
For airline industry workers, it’s been a wild ride.
Union Organizing
Delta remains non-union as fourth group votes to reject unionization
Delta Air Lines customer service workers voted Dec. 7 not to join the Machinists. It was the fourth major union defeat at Delta since heavily unionized Northwest Airlines merged into largely nonunion Delta. Altogether, unions stood to gain 34,000 new members, but instead lost 17,000 existing members.
Union Organizing
Machinists Union loses Delta elections; complaint filed
In a pair of votes in November, the Machinists lost a campaign to represent 13,800 Delta Air Lines workers. The votes follow on the heels of a Nov. 3 loss by Association of Flight Attendants among 20,000 Delta flight attendants.
Union Organizing
Delta flight attendants say ‘no’ to union
In votes counted Nov. 3, Delta Air Lines flight attendants chose not to be represented by Association of Flight Attendants. It was Delta flight attendants’ third unionization vote in a decade.
Union Organizing
32,000 Delta/Northwest airline workers vote on unionization
About 32,000 flight attendants, ramp workers, ticket agents and other workers at Delta airlines workers will decide over the next several months whether or not to be union-represented — under new rules that eliminate a major obstacle to winning union representation.
