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Delta is pulling out the stops to keep employees from organizing. This is an actual propaganda poster:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">lol fuck off <a href="https://twitter.com/Delta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Delta</a> <a href="https://t.co/fMNOeW9uFG">pic.twitter.com/fMNOeW9uFG</a></p> Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) <a href="
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Eoin Higgins, a senior editor and staff writer with Common Dreams, first spotted the poster from Delta that you can see above, which appears to be part of its anti-organizing campaign against the International Association of Machinists and the ongoing effort to unionize Deltas flight attendants. Its titled Dont Risk It Dont Sign It. The it, in this regard, ostensibly refers to union cards, which workers sign to indicate their willingness to join a union.
But the risk, of course, can only refer to punitive measures that Delta can impose on its own workers for asking for better salaries and benefits, as Hamilton Nolan noted over at Splinter last year, when Delta was trying to direct the exact same dimwitted campaign at its own cargo and ramp workers:
They make the all time classic corporate threat
During negotiations, everything would be on the table and as a result, things could get better, stay the same, or get worse.
without mentioning that the only way that things could get worse would be if they, the Delta corporation, insisted on making them worse, as retaliation.
Their explanation of what labor unions do includes the criticism that during a union campaign
Uncertainty typically rules for a long time, and that Negotiations for a first contract in the airline industry can take years
two more things that happen as a direct result of Deltas own conduct, not the unions.
The site prominently warns that signing a union card is NOT confidential, you are giving your personal information to the IAM. Directly next to this warning is a box where Delta solicits workers personal emails to send them more anti-union emails.
And, most impressively....
It includes an ACTUAL cartoon of a fat cat union leader, counting money.
And while negotiations can take a long time, lets also note that the only reason negotiations over salary happen in the first place, rather than just being unilaterally being imposed upon workers, is because of a union. Unions provide that opportunity.
Continued here via Jalopnik:
https://jalopnik.com/delta-thinks-its-employees-are-morons-1834648896
spooky3
(34,656 posts)Are to show that employees want an election held. Usually employees who want this also want the union voted in, but not always.
Its sad that, in the 1980s, Delta was very proud of its good employee relations, and that there had never been a layoff, but today...
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)TeamPooka
(24,411 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,965 posts)That sentence makes no sense.
Oh, I know! You mean its workers.
Grammar note: it's means it is. its means belong to it.
JohnnyRingo
(18,783 posts)It's corrected. Wont happen again.
LOL
Sgent
(5,857 posts)but Delta is a hard one to pick on. Their FA's have the best pay and best benefits in the industry. They voted down unions after a secret ballot post Northwest merger -- a ballot that the union didn't have enough cards to force.
I'm sure there are issues -- there always are. I'm not sure if I were a Delta FA that I would want one of the more militant, traditional FA unions.
Finally, between Georgia is right to work plus Delta hires less than 1% of applicants for FA jobs. A strike would probably be a repeat of the air traffic controllers.