Defending worker rights at Delta Airlines
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Monday 29th December 2008 10:20 PM
Defending worker rights at Delta Airlines
29 December 2008
BLOOMINGTON - Members of Machinists Local 1833 are sending a message to Delta Airlines management not to interfere in workers' decision to choose their own representatives in the workplace.
The union, which represents ticket agents, reservations staff, baggage handlers and other ground crew at the former Northwest Airlines, says Delta Airlines management is interfering with the rights of workers to have union representation at the newly merged carrier.
Delta management is preventing union workers from communicating with non-union workers and establishing company-dominated committees on issues such as seniority, the union said.
"They want to shut us down," said Local 1833 member Kip Hedges. "If we have a level playing field, we win."
Julie Blaha, vice president of Anoka-Hennepin Education Minnesota, joined Machinists Local 1833 President Ken Hooker in informational picketing at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Local 1833 members are contacting their non-union counterparts at Delta as part of an organizing drive to win representation for all ground workers.
For more information
Visit the Local 1833 website, www.localiam1833.org