In these days of airline union unrest in the headlines, this look at the underpinnings of Southwest Airline’s flight attendants’ union provides an enlightening view of the birth and growth of a successful airline union that has worked together with management to create legendary customer service and a profitable airline.
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The new Obama administration is inching towards allowing union representation for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Union leaders from two competing organizations are making overtures to TSA bigwigs. As part of our national security team, should TSA be unionized?
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A row has erupted within Delta’s flight attendant ranks about the merged airline’s new uniforms — not about the designs or other regulations — about which flight attendants gets to wear hot red uniforms and which must wear a dreary, darkish blue.
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The incoming Obama administration and the Democratic majority in the House and Senate have just about eliminated any question about whether non-union Delta workers will prevail over their unionized counterparts from Northwest as the airlines merge. Unions will undoubtedly prevail.
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If the machinations within the “merged” pilot groups at US Airways are any indication, the Delta/Northwest combination has a long way to go.
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Rank-and-file US Airways pilots unseated the Air Line Pilots Association as their union representative and replace it with an upstart labor group
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It looks as if the rumored merger of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines is dead. According to the Associated Press, pilots of the two airlines could not agree on a seniority deal.
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US Airways nearly has its mechanics working under one contract. The airline, which merged with America West in September 2005, has agreed to a contract with the mechanics union that includes pensions and 10 percent raises in the first year.
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