Veda Shook helped negotiate an industry-leading contract at Alaska Airlines, where she was MEC President. Now, as AFA’s President-Elect, she’s looking forward to helping Delta flight attendants do the same.

What’s Delta culture? It’s teamwork! Working together to be the best that we can be. Flight attendants discuss what it means to be Delta flight attendants, and the new spirit we’re bringing to our airline through Delta AFA.

Southwest Airlines, the nation’s most unionized carrier, succeeds by working cooperatively with its employees’ unions. Listen to Southwest founder Herb Kelleher and other senior management talk about the benefits that unions bring to the employee-employer relationship. The Flight Attendants at Southwest Airlines our represented by TWU local 556. We thank them for their continued support.

Delta Flight Attendants will begin to vote for representation this week. While the company paints a happy picture of a union free workplace where they take care of the employees, hear what some Flight Attendants think about working without a union.

In “Confessions of a Union Buster,” Martin Jay Levitt lays out how “human resources consultants” use fear and divide-and-conquer techniques to beat back employee efforts to gain representation.

Why AFA? Because we own it. This is all of us coming together in Delta AFA. Listen to flight attendants talk about what they expect to achieve working together through Delta AFA.

Why is it important for flight attendants to vote YES for Delta AFA representation? It’s about Respect and Unity, having a guarantee in a legally binding contract. And, YES, this is our Opportunity!

Delta and Northwest merged to better position our airline for the future. When flight attendants pool our resources like our airlines did, we build a solid foundation that will flourish in good times and withstand industry challenges. Dues are our investment in each other.

Delta Air Lines used to be like a family, flight attendants recall, but it’s changed over the past several decades with a procession of new executives and management teams. Today, we have a chance to restore that sense of family at Delta.

Delta executives always seem to be promising flight attendants the moon, although the reality of what we get is more like green cheese. Consider these comments by CEO Richard Anderson in a video message two years ago, with a reality check served up by Delta flight attendants.

Delta flight attendants say being pro-Delta and pro-AFA are not mutually exclusive. They go hand in glove.

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I Am The Union

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