Guess you didnt realize CO's Fleet Service voted in the IBT, so since the CO's Fleet made more than the US Airways Fleet, they still voted to unionize, explain that one Lucy. (I all ready know the answer)
Ramp workers vote to join Teamsters Decision at Continental Airlines
The agents in PIT, PHL, BOS and BUF made less than their non-union counterparts on the US Air system, that was done so the rest of the US system wouldnt vote in a union. At the time of the merger US brought all of PI's Agents up to US scale so the Piedmont employees wouldnt vote a union in.
And DL and other legacy carriers who were non-union paid their workers more than or equal too their union counterparts for years to keep unions off the property, and all this occurred after 1978.
It took the blood bath of 1992 for Fleet to vote a union in several years later.
In 1992 US Air's management outsourced catering (except a few cities), mail, freight and turned express work over to the express carriers instead of mainline handiling them, they cut 40% of the workforce to part-time thereby increasing their medical costs to over $300 a month for part-timers, who were limited to a maximum of 25 hours a week, they froze their pension, took away their sick, oji and vacation time.
See now you know why Fleet has a contact and are unionized so they have a say in what happens to them and not let them be at the company's mercy.
Compare DL's non-union employees who had no say in bankruptcy what happened to them to their counterparts at the former NW, do you know NW's employees pay less for insurance, have a pension, have more sick and vacation time then the original DL employees? NW's employees got thousand of dollars in payments from the bankruptcy case, DL's got nothing.
Why is it ok for Doug and the executives have a contract, but not the workers?
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