Posted on 10/07/2009 10:07:59 AM PDT by jazusamo
No trucks from Mexico, no new trade agreements, a sweet deal for the United Auto Workers at GM and Chrysler, tariffs on Chinese tires, and now Big Labor has another demand of the Obama Administration: Overturn 75 years of labor policy to sandbag Delta Airlines and unionize transportation workers. Will it get that too?
The latest looming political favor features the National Mediation Board, the federal agency established in 1934 under the Railway Labor Act to oversee labor relations in the air and rail industries. A department of the AFL-CIO last month sent a letter demanding that the board tear up longstanding rules requiring that a majority of all airline or rail workers vote in favor of union representation to win union certification.
The AFL-CIO instead wants a "minority rule," requiring only a majority of the employees who actually vote. Under current rules, if an airline has 10,000 nonunion flight attendants, 5,001 must vote yes to unionize. Under the union proposal if only 2,000 of 10,000 vote, and 1,001 vote yes, all 10,000 become subject to unionization.
The timing here is nakedly opportunistic. Two of Delta's unions—the Association of Flight Attendants and the International Association of Machinists—have elections pending in front of the Mediation Board as a result of last year's Delta acquisition of Northwest Airlines. Northwest was largely unionized but Delta wasn't. The Delta flight attendants tried to unionize last year but lost that election, and now the AFL-CIO wants the White House to stack the deck in their favor. Beyond Delta, the new rules would make it easier to unionize JetBlue, Continental, FedEx and short-line railroads, among others.
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Unions make me physically ill.
That could put Delta right out of business.
Yes, the further their popularity falls with workers the more money they funnel to RATS to skirt and change labor laws in their favor.
I believe you’re right.
So they want the government to force Delta to become unionized?
What do you think, short about 5000 shares?
unless they get a bailout of course
That’s about what it amounts to. If the Mediation Board changes the policy there will be a lawsuit for sure.
Unions are nothing but DNC fundraisers, donors and campaign workers. They should be viewed as such by the government.
How about, anyone who wants to join the Union, joins and gets’ to pay their dues, and all those that don’t want to join the Union, get the New Union Members to pay their dues too.
That was my first thought as well.
It might seem opportunistic, but we need to make money somehow, in order to pay for the Delta bailout and massive unemployment of airline workers that would ensue...
Why would they be forced to unionize? What authority does the government have to do it?
They would not actually be forced to unionize, there would have to be a vote. But the vote would only have to be a simple majority of those that voted instead of a simple majority of all workers.
Make up the rules to fit the situation.
great. just look what they did for Northworst.
Isn’t that known as the Acorn rule?
Is it employees inside Delta, or somebody on the outside?
What do you think, short about 5000 shares?
Forget about stocks. I am finally getting close to Silver Medallion status. I always wanted to see the inside of the Delta Sky Club.
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