Delta Flight Attendants: ?Opportunity, Unity, Respect? Needed at New Delta Family

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AFA-CWA has produced a great new organizing video, The New Delta Family. It focuses on flight attendants' frustration over how their airline, which workers and the company considered to be "like a family," has changed for the worse with a revolving door of changing management and executives.

Flight attendants at Northwest, which merged with Delta, don't want to lose the bargaining rights they've had for 60 years. They're working with Delta flight attendants to make sure that all flight attendants get the respect and protections of a union contract.

The organizing campaign is focused on building a "world class contract" for the 21,000 flight attendants at the merged airline, along with "opportunity, unity and respect."

In the video, loyal Delta flight attendants with 20, 30 and 40 years of service describe how they now have a chance to restore that lost sense of family by voting for AFA-CWA. They talk about how managers and executives now pay lip service to the idea of caring about workers who have been a loyal part of the company for years.

One flight attendant with 20 years' service said: "When I was hired in 1989, senior management came up through the ranks just like the rest of us. They had a loyalty to the company because they built it and wanted to see it do well. It was a Delta family. It's a totally different culture now."

Another pointed out that there have been five different CEOs over the past 23 years, a real change from the days of the "Delta family."