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Delta's "Compromise" For New Union Provisions is Making Voting *OUT* A Union EASIER
article from Public Broastcasting ATL:
"Delta Softens Opposition to New Union Rules?
Jim Burress (2011-08-21)
ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - Some have blamed Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines' heavy lobbying against changes in unionization rules as the reason for the recent shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Now, Delta says it will back a pro-union provision at the heart of the accusations, but with at least one condition. Voting out a union needs to be just as easy as voting one in, says Delta spokeswoman Gina Laughlin.
"We would be supportive of an equal decertification process that gives employees the right to change their minds and to decertify a union in the future," she told WABE.
Since the 1930s, unions at the nation's airlines and railroads had to get affirmative votes from 50%, plus one, of an entire employee group in order to win representation. If someone didn't vote, that was counted as a vote against the union.
Under new rules passed last year, consideration is only given to those who cast a ballot.
But rules for voting out a union didn't change, Delta said, and doing so remains a complex and difficult proposition.
US Senator Johnny Iskason, who sits on the Senate's transportation committee, says he also supports the decertification move.
"There is a battle philosophically over the weight and balance between union and non-union," he said. "And my situation is seeking a sense of equity and fairness."
Isakson also said that means he'll push for the unionization compromise Delta says it's now open to, which also includes so-called "judicial review."
Whether any compromise will have a positive effect is yet to be seen. And whatever lawmakers decide on, they'll have to do it quickly. They have less than two weeks after returning from recess before the FAA's stop-gap funding runs out.
© Copyright 2011, WABE "
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Let's see... JetBlue just voted down ALPA, let's say Delta buys them (or another non ALPA carrier), ALPA makes all them mad by taking care of their dues paying pilots (in theory) in addition to all the pilots already on their property looking to start a "new" union...so add all the JetBlue (or whoever) pilot #s...
Looks like Another case of Airline Mgt playing pilots like a fiddle once again, and not even a "Republican" in office.
ALPA better wake up or they're going to get "busted" by these snakes, bigtime.
article from Public Broastcasting ATL:
"Delta Softens Opposition to New Union Rules?
Jim Burress (2011-08-21)
ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - Some have blamed Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines' heavy lobbying against changes in unionization rules as the reason for the recent shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Now, Delta says it will back a pro-union provision at the heart of the accusations, but with at least one condition. Voting out a union needs to be just as easy as voting one in, says Delta spokeswoman Gina Laughlin.
"We would be supportive of an equal decertification process that gives employees the right to change their minds and to decertify a union in the future," she told WABE.
Since the 1930s, unions at the nation's airlines and railroads had to get affirmative votes from 50%, plus one, of an entire employee group in order to win representation. If someone didn't vote, that was counted as a vote against the union.
Under new rules passed last year, consideration is only given to those who cast a ballot.
But rules for voting out a union didn't change, Delta said, and doing so remains a complex and difficult proposition.
US Senator Johnny Iskason, who sits on the Senate's transportation committee, says he also supports the decertification move.
"There is a battle philosophically over the weight and balance between union and non-union," he said. "And my situation is seeking a sense of equity and fairness."
Isakson also said that means he'll push for the unionization compromise Delta says it's now open to, which also includes so-called "judicial review."
Whether any compromise will have a positive effect is yet to be seen. And whatever lawmakers decide on, they'll have to do it quickly. They have less than two weeks after returning from recess before the FAA's stop-gap funding runs out.
© Copyright 2011, WABE "
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Let's see... JetBlue just voted down ALPA, let's say Delta buys them (or another non ALPA carrier), ALPA makes all them mad by taking care of their dues paying pilots (in theory) in addition to all the pilots already on their property looking to start a "new" union...so add all the JetBlue (or whoever) pilot #s...
Looks like Another case of Airline Mgt playing pilots like a fiddle once again, and not even a "Republican" in office.
ALPA better wake up or they're going to get "busted" by these snakes, bigtime.
