Non-union Delta flight attendants continue to win improvements in pay and work rules while the largest flight attendant union in the world (AFA) remains stymied by NWA management.
We all know that having a Strong union is better than no union. And we all know that having a strong union is better than a weak union. The question that remains is whether having a weak union is better than having no union.
Delta flight attendants recently received a memo from the company that they will receive international premium pay beginning July 1, 2007 and that they will be paid the greater of schedule or actual flight times. The Northwest flight attendants are excluded from any international premium pay until January, 2009. Meanwhile, Pat Friend requested the NWA MEC to correct the misleading hotline item on Delta pay, sent last Friday. More than 48 hours later, we are still waiting for the correction. What happened to the promised ‘state of the art communications’ AFA promised us? Why does AFA seem to issue almost as many corrections as original hotlines?
And what ever happened to the quality of life discussions that Kevin Griffin had with Doug Steenland? Where are his and AFA’s accountability to the members? What is the benefit to paying $39 a month (soon to be $43) to an organization that can’t even win us the improvements that non-union flight attendants achieve?
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Where is unionism working?
Three unions leading the way:
Writers Guild of America West keeps the strike pressure on (does not cancel the strike like AFA international did with CHAOS at NWA) and looks close to a deal. No caving here: http://www.wga.org/
California Nurses Association is educating and fighting for America’s healthcare after having all of their members see the movie SICKO for free: http://ga1.org/campaign/cheneycare
SEIU fighting back with their Hotel Workers campaign to get workers above poverty levels: http://www.hotelworkersrising.com/
Some good general labor sites:
http://www.labornet.org/
http://www.laborradio.org/
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php
http://www.labornotes.org/
Labor History (find out what real unionists did):
http://www.labor-studies.org/
Service not Servitude
The Pullman Porters – the first black union and they were in the service industry like us, but they had a strategy and knew how to affect politics (they helped start the civil rights movement): http://www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/evo_history4.html
Union Democracy: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/index.htm
(Check out The LMRDA and the Union Members' Bill of Rights http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Legal/lmrda.htm)
Writers Guild of America West keeps the strike pressure on (does not cancel the strike like AFA international did with CHAOS at NWA) and looks close to a deal. No caving here: http://www.wga.org/
California Nurses Association is educating and fighting for America’s healthcare after having all of their members see the movie SICKO for free: http://ga1.org/campaign/cheneycare
SEIU fighting back with their Hotel Workers campaign to get workers above poverty levels: http://www.hotelworkersrising.com/
Some good general labor sites:
http://www.labornet.org/
http://www.laborradio.org/
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php
http://www.labornotes.org/
Labor History (find out what real unionists did):
http://www.labor-studies.org/
Service not Servitude
The Pullman Porters – the first black union and they were in the service industry like us, but they had a strategy and knew how to affect politics (they helped start the civil rights movement): http://www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/evo_history4.html
Union Democracy: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/index.htm
(Check out The LMRDA and the Union Members' Bill of Rights http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Legal/lmrda.htm)