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Bababooy---
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN2111584...lBrandChannel=0
I don't see the uphill battle. around 40% voted yes to a union last go around, now you have a whole group coming in union. All they need is 10% plus 1. I really wonder why they are bringing back retirees threw DGS on salaried and hourly jobs. I hear they are going after salaried employees, but if you look at ebid, they are hiring out the @$$ for merit positions. Also, which most know that, if the f/a vote in a union half of Delta employees will be under a CBA.
Working...You're not really looking at the numbers in their totality.
Here's the way it works:
50%+1 of the COMBINED (DL and NW) FA group must vote "YES".
NW has approximately 7,000 FAs
DL has approximately 13,000 FAs
Total: 20,000 FAs
This means that approx. 10,000 +1 of the COMBINED group must vote. Even if the 5,000 DL FAS that voted last year vote YES again, another 10% of the combined group (approx 2,000 FAs) only brings the total up to 7,000---3,001 too few to win the election.
The real way you have to look at this is, and I am a realist, about 85% (just under 6,000 FAs) of NW FAs MUST VOTE YES in order for AFA to win. I say this because I feel, for a variety of reasons that I don't have time to go into, you will not see that 40% (5,300 in '08) of DL FAs vote this time around. I anticipate somewhat less due to again, reasons I don't have time to explain.
In MY OPINION, and all of this is JUST MY OPINION, if 1,000 or more Pre-merger NW FAs choose not to vote, that's the end of the road for AFA at Delta....at least for a number of years.
AFA will begin talks with them about allowing a more democratic balloting process to be used this time at Delta (Yes/No ballot). If the NMB (now Democratically-controlled vs. the past 2 elections when it was Republican-controlled) approves this, then it is easy to surmise (due to plain ol' voter apathy like in other elections) that AFA would be voted in as the collective bargaining unit of the combined Delta/Northwest FA group.
What Pat Friend wants is a Laker Ballot. Typically, Laker ballots are used as a remedy only after a company has been found to have interfered in an election. If she is successful in getting a Laker ballot on a first vote, it will be a change from long standing NMB policy.
Mr. Hoglander (D) is, to my knowledge, still on the Board
Whether the NMB is controlled by Democrats or Republicans doesn't change that the fact that there are laws and precedents supporting all of these decisions... it is not the right of any administration to simply rewrite laws... that is the role of Congress.
Still, this prediction would be more meaningful if it came from a university in a NW controlled city instead of DL's HDQ city.
I never said a word about rewriting law. I talked about interpretation of POLICY and opinions/findings of previous NMBs of charges of interference by Delta management in the previous elections.Whether the NMB is controlled by Democrats or Republicans doesn't change that the fact that there are laws and precedents supporting all of these decisions... it is not the right of any administration to simply rewrite laws... that is the role of Congress.
POLICY Precedent? Maybe. Laws? Again, no one is talking overturning laws as you are indeed correct, Congress is in charge there.It is also worth nothing that some of the current Administration's top priorities are being scuttled in Congress and they are also rolling back some of the previous Administration's attempts to overturn precedent in the name of reforming the way business runs (see the NYC slot reduction case). Bottom line is that anyone who thinks that the Obama Administration or its agencies will move and succed to overturn labor precedent and law may very well be surprised.
Thanks, I think so.The math presented is really quite realistic.
Sorry, your timeline is off. 2005 (beginning of huge paycuts and BK filing) thru 2007 were the darkest hours. When the last AFA election took place (May, 2008) we were already 1 year out of BK and a small percentage of pay/benefits had already been added back.Even with the threat of a potential takeover of DL in bankruptcy, unions made no headway at DL. The fact that only 40% of DL FAs voted for a union during DL's darkest hours and when its future was most bleak (and takeovers most likely) speaks volumes about how DL employees value unions - or not.
Absolutely agree with you here.Still, this prediction would be more meaningful if it came from a university in a NW controlled city instead of DL's HDQ city.
the last TA, TA 3 the current contract for PMNW at this time..that is about the number of those who did not even vote!if 1,000 or more Pre-merger NW FAs choose not to vote
I am thinking a good 70 percent, but I dont know about 85 percent, but that's just a hunch.
some of the junior people want the ADays..as soon as... yesterday! a lot of the seniors took the buyouts and then they hired new people so who knows this time?!FWIW, I'd say 85-90% "yes" on the NW ramp, but like you, that's just a hunch.