Originally Posted by beis77

Here’s what I don’t understand about management’s approach to the whole unions issue. They’re spending so much time worrying about the optics between the pilots and the non-cons, isn’t the comparison between the non-con work groups and their counterparts at other airlines even more important? Comparing pilots to FAs to mechanics etc. is comparing apples to oranges. Management and those work groups should be paying more attention to how management at other airlines is treating their own work groups. Example: non-con hours have been reduced here by roughly 20% since March. UAL proposed something similar to their mechanics union and they said “no”. Heck, AAL’s mechanics ratified their new contract and received a raise the same day the CARES Act was signed.

My point is this... Depending on how the next 6 months plays out with furloughs, layoffs etc., I think unions for non-cons at Delta are highly likely in the next 3-5 years, regardless of managements efforts to paint us as the bad guys. If the non-cons do avoid furloughs and layoffs then maybe not, but if any of them are laid off after taking a 20% reduction in hours for 6+ months, then unionizing is pretty much inevitable IMO; and it will have nothing to do with what our group did/did not give, and everything to do with the comparison of how their peers at other airlines were treated.