Perhaps i would better be able to understand your disdain for Delta Management/Employees "marching along together", as you put it, if the all-powerful NWA unions hadn't allowed their Management to take their employees to cleaners as well. All that glitters isn't gold my friend.
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Then allow me to explain,once again. First of all the IAM and AMFA are no employee friendly unions. AMFA is not even a union. They've well hidden their base in diverse realestate holdings through a company called the McCormick group. They've been asked numerous times about that and have dodged that question like world class politicians. (Read company union). There are many unions that have been bought and payed for by the same global nation busters. The IAM is one. The Teamsters are not,but they have them hamstrung with government oversight.
Disdain for Delta; In the early nineteen-nineties when a group of retirees started a class-action against the company for cutting off their retirement medical, a federal court judge named Tidwell ruled that class action couldn't be held. The man magically became a two million plus frequent flyer.
Worst of all was that this case set a legal precedent that flowed across the U.S. One of the first major cases that set it in stone took the medical insurance away from eighty thousand G.M. non-union retirees.
Shall I go on ? How about how marriages of employees that are union organizers are undermined. Or how local law enforcement is used to try and intimidate organizers. Or how they plant open liquor bottles in the vehicles of organizers, and then make anonomous phone calls to the cops so that they'll be pulled over as they leave work.
There's also psychological manipulation of the organizer his family his friends,his clergy people. Inuendo is a favorite tactic of their union busting ilk also.
To me the absolute worst thing you can do to a loyal employee that has served your company,bragged about your company, lived and breathed the pride you feel with knowing that this company appreciates you as a human being and an asset, is to wait till that employee retires after twenty or thirty or forty years and then yank his medical insurance.
I can't possibly describe the disdain I felt for Delta, and the empathy I felt for the retirees that had to come to that realization. In other words, you're out of here now,we couldn't care less about you.
When you've met some of those retirees right after it happened and looked at their faces, you'd have to be one cold bastard not to care.
