Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
Since we have been the only major union on Delta property pretty much any thing we have negotiated to the good in previous contracts has been extended to the non-contract employees (the rest of the company) in some form or another. I'm sure this was done to keep other unions from getting a foothold here. If the company gives them what we negotiate, why do they need a union? A perfect example is profit sharing. We negotiated it and the company gave it to the rest of the employees.
Denny, I agree that profit sharing is a
good example; but the
perfect example was jumpseat. For those who haven't been at DAL for that long, we used to be about the only carrier that prohibited use of the jumpseat. During the concessionary 1996 contract, we were finally able to negotiate use of it, and DAL turned around and gave the flight attendants the same thing.
About six months later, I actually had a flight attendant tell me how nice DAL was to give them the jumpseat, and she asked if we had it too! I bit my lip so hard, I never could get the blood stain out of my shirt.
