Confessed Union Buster Shares Trade Secrets with Delta Flight Attendants for Union Vote

[Hannah Bell]

In this video, “Confessions of a Union Buster,” Levitt share his experience, trade secrets and tips with Delta Air Lines’ more than 20,000 flight attendants who will begin voting Sept. 29 on forming a union with the Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA). The video was produced by Delta AFA using excerpts from Levitt’s seminars and book of the same name. Two of the main gospels of any anti-union campaign, says Levitt, are misinformation and fear.

A union buster without the atmosphere or climate of fear is like working without one leg and one arm. Fear is essential. Fear is like caviar, lobster and filet mignon to a union buster. Along with breaking the law, the element and emotion of fear is vital.

No surprise, but as in past campaigns Delta is running an anti-union drive with fear and misinformation as the focus. Then, says Levitt, comes the divide and conquer strategy.

"The more we knew about the demographics and individuals, the more we could set them up. We would pit religion against religion, race against race…we would use background information to set people in some vicious ways, plant false rumors, to ruin lives, if you will."

(Another reason why the corporate monolith wants all your personal information: the better to manipulate you, dear)

But there is one thing, Levitt says, that union busters fear the most: An informed and prepared group of workers who are in a sense “inoculated” against the tactics and schemes in the union buster’s playbook. When inoculation is put in force with employees and they see it come true, it creates a feeling of rage—“How can the company be doing something like that?”—and that rage translates to a solidarity which beat me…the most effective weapon you have to beat the union buster is exposure.


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Video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-0gxca-VxM

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[Trajan]

1. Figures someone first UNrecommended this ...

The RW DUer patrol is out in force today ....

Nothing frustrated me more here in DU than our own resident TeaBaggers ....

[comtec]

3. remember, they're freepers, not real DUers

since it's impossible to determine someone's real affiliation by registration alone.

[Hannah Bell]

6. :>)

[Hannah Bell]

2. "Nothing that happens in an anti-union campaign is spontaneous for management....every word, every

action...it's all directed...We set race against race, religion against religion..."

[pnorman]

4. Union Busting 101

http://www.endicottalliance.org/unionbusting101.htm

[Hannah Bell]

5. "These videos are excerpts from a full seminar, presented to Local 1298."

Union Busting 101
Union busting has been going on for decades.
Little has ever been revealed to the non-union public about their tactics;
or how much companies will pay to bust a union campaign.
Here are some videos from YouTube, of a former union buster giving instruction to an audience of union members.


Anyone that ever had questions about how this process works, should view all of these videos:

* U1TV - Union Busting 101 - "Fear" Episode 1
* U1TV - Union Busting 101 - "Who Are They?" Episode 2
* U1TV - Union Busting 101 - "The Role of Supervisors" Episode 3
* U1TV - Union Busting 101 - "Fighting Back; Exposure" Episode 4


And I will add: The same tactics are used in the media to manipulate the population generally.

[Greyhound]

7. K&R.

[rpannier]

8. Recommend

Strongly rec
Thanks

[Starry Messenger]

9. k&r