IAM Stepping Up campaign

[700UW]

You do realize Delta spends millions with Ford and Harrison and other union busting firms to line the executives and shareholders' pockets and not the employees?

 

[Kev3188]

They spend millions to maintain autocracy. Those are millions that won't be going toward Southwind's next PS check. If I was him, that's what I'd be pissed about.

 

[700UW]

Richard Anderson on Delta's business decisions, April 24, 2014.
"They were all geared toward making the shareholder the priority in our decision making queue."
 

Not the passenger, not the employee. When Anderson talks about shareholders he means the Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities, JP Morgan Securities, Barclays Capital. That is who Delta answers to. That is who drives Delta's decisions. We need a voice to make sure our interests as workers are taken into account.

 
 

 

[robbedagain]

those are same banks who caused the financial collapse in 2008 and to date not one of those dam idiots have gone to prison  but in the eyes of Anderson its ok for him to rape the employees of anything they want due to non union   with the exception being the pilots    

 

[WorldTraveler]

Richard Anderson on Delta's business decisions, April 24, 2014.
"They were all geared toward making the shareholder the priority in our decision making queue."
 

Not the passenger, not the employee. When Anderson talks about shareholders he means the Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities, JP Morgan Securities, Barclays Capital. That is who Delta answers to. That is who drives Delta's decisions. We need a voice to make sure our interests as workers are taken into account.

what you can't grasp and what DL execs do is that it is very possible to make Wall Street happy and STILL give employees and customers the best they can get anywhere else.
This would be a good place to reiterate the article that is posted on the B6 forum saying that DL execs and ALPA both recognize that DL has a culture of working together such that both sides gain.

it is precisely the union mindset that "someone has to lose in order for me to win" that marked the regulated era of labor relations and which still remains at the other legacy airlines.

WN broke the paradigm and DL broke it with its pilots.

It isn't a surprise that DL had the highest ROI in the industry in the most recent quarter and still has come up with the best scores among its most direct competitive set of airlines as well as giving more pay and benefit increases to its employees than any other airline.

Unionized labor doesn't get it but DL employees do.

The vote has consistently been and will continue to be "NO."

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

Unionized labor doesn't get it but DL employees do.

You say this above...

Then this below:

DL execs and ALPA both recognize that DL has a culture of working together such that both sides gain..

Which is it? Your tout the great labor relations and symbiotic relationship Delta has with its UNION pilots out of one side of your mouth...

Then say that unionized labor doesn't get it?

If Delta can be so successful with unionized pilots, surely they can continue that success with union labor in other groups. Or do the pilots succeed on the zero scope of the other groups.

Delta has the flexibility (there is that word) to give the pilots more without having to negotiate giving less to the rest of the workforce.

 

[WorldTraveler]

unionized labor AT OTHER LEGACY AIRLINES don't get that it is possible to have a positive working environment.

700 and the IAM want to play on the same adversarial relationship that has existed at the legacy airlines for decades.

DL employees, non-union and union, understand that DL can indeed work for the best interest of shareholders and still ensure that DL employees end up better off than their unionized peers.

there is nothing besides fear and a confrontational environment that the unions can offer DL employees

AMFA is a perfect example of how badly unions and mgmt. are willing to work AGAINST each other to the detriment of a lot of people's jobs.

 

[robbedagain]

you do not GRASP the fact that other than DL pilots  they are AT WILL and DL can and DOES do what they want when they want without EMPLOYEE input
 
Pilots got 20% raises while the rest got 2 or 3%   that's a fact jack 
 
Its time DL employees become UNION and have a say   F..k wall street and the big banks    Its time the Employees of DL have a say in their future at DL

 

[Kev3188]

there is nothing besides fear and a confrontational environment that the unions can offer DL employees

An environment of fear & mistrust currently rules the day at the Widget.

Representation offers a path away from what you've described.

 

[WorldTraveler]

An environment of fear & mistrust currently rules the day at the Widget.

Representation offers a path away from what you've described.

except that with the exception of a minority of DL employees, the vast majority do not sense fear, or at least are not willing to trade what they do have for a union.

DL employees despite supposedly being at will are far better off than their peers at other legacy airlines who have recovered far, far less post BK and are gaining next to nothing from their company's success.

The thread on the AA forum is indicting. DL employees got $99M in profit sharing for one quarter's work while their counterparts at AA/US got next to nothing despite AA/US reporting a proportionately slightly higher profit.

The unions have consistently promised far more than they actually deliver. DL employees recognize that reality and continue to look for true evidence that a union can do better than what DL people already have.

The unions have simply not delivered.

 

[700UW]

Did you get how Delta Flight Attendants and Ramp who are signing cards, did you find out how they feel on your breakroom and galley visits?

 

[700UW]

 

[southwind]

They spend millions to maintain autocracy. Those are millions that won't be going toward Southwind's next PS check. If I was him, that's what I'd be pissed about.

Wondering how many millions, employees represented by a union will be paying, out of their PS check, to line the union coiffures?
 
Sounds like a wash to me, other than, no union, no middle man getting his take!

 

[Kev3188]

Of course it does...

 

[700UW]

Ten days from today look for your coworkers at the World Lot in ATL. We will be asking you to sign a union card to get an election, a union and a contract. We will be there on May 5, 6 and 7 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday). You can also stop by the IAM Office at 3401 Norman Berry Drive, Hapeville GA. Suite 142. We will be there all day to collect your cards. IAM For Having A Voice.