Delta Flight Attendants Vote Not To Unionize

Robert Weinstein submits:DAL just reported good earnings. At least they were good by industry standards lately. Delta managed to pull off two straight quarters of profit, which for most large international companies would not be all that impressive. According to yahoo finance and some reading of the SEC reporting, DAL has a mile high P/E and the profit is dependant on several factors that appear to be up in the air.

Delta flight attendants rejected the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA in election results released on Wednesday. Almost 48 percent of flight attendants voted to join the union, but that was short of the needed majority.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

The union for flight attendants at Delta Air Lines Inc. unit Northwest Airlines is suing Delta, saying the new managers are breaking their contract, the Associated Press reports Thursday.

(Reuters) - A federal judge rejected a request by former Northwest Airlines Corp flight attendants to raise their compensation to that of Delta Air Lines Inc colleagues who worked at that carrier before the companies' merger.

American air travelers are happier with low-cost carriers like Frontier and Southwest Airlines than with their traditional counterparts like Delta, American, and United, a new report shows.

Flight attendants at Delta Air Lines rejected a union push in the first leg of a massive labor organizing drive at the world's second-largest airline by traffic.

Half a dozen flight attendants at Delta Air Lines filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the airline over pay, part of a broader dispute over hotly contested unionization elections.

In a message to employees, Richard Anderson said he was "disappointed" that security measures implemented since Sept. 11, 2001, didn't prevent a man from boarding Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with explosives. The Transportation Security Administration issued a statement in response saying all security procedures were being reviewed.