Originally Posted by
PadraicPearse
Our flight attendants have a union, and they would push to unionize all Delta FAs. So no, no merger.
THeres no merger because theres no merger. As much as delta would love to pay delta flight attendants the pittance the edv FAs get theres no trigger in flight attendants contract to push the union on them. But lets say they did. Thered be a vote like last time. The union would lose, like last time. This time they'd lose by 40 something thousand votes.
The EDV FAs, like nwa FAs, could push all they like- but no means no. Delta doesnt consider what implications there are for edv FAs because they are powerless in contractual strength.
But we arent merging. The only way to get around the pilots going with the birds is to shut down and end the operation known as edv, then move the planes delta owns to delta (or skypest). The only time you could probably do that is october, but it would be ugly. Since passengers seem to keep buying tickets with **** poor operations, this might be the time.
I would hope delta would just give us a contract and work in something to give you all seniority numbers but theres a lot of representation stuff to figure out.