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Delta Airlines thinks its workers are Morons
Delta is pulling out the stops to keep employees from organizing. This is an actual propaganda poster:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">lol fuck off <a href="https://twitter.com/Delta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Delta</a> <a href="https://t.co/fMNOeW9uFG">pic.twitter.com/fMNOeW9uFG</a></p>— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) <a href="
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Delta, an airline company that absorbs over $5 billion in annual profit and has a share price that’s soared to over eight times its value since 2011, does not want its flight attendants to unionize and demand fair compensation as a unit. Instead of making more money, the airline asks, how about... video games?
Eoin Higgins, a senior editor and staff writer with Common Dreams, first spotted the poster from Delta that you can see above, which appears to be part of its anti-organizing campaign against the International Association of Machinists and the ongoing effort to unionize Delta’s flight attendants. It’s titled “Don’t Risk It Don’t Sign It.” The “it,” in this regard, ostensibly refers to union cards, which workers sign to indicate their willingness to join a union.
But the “risk,” of course, can only refer to punitive measures that Delta can impose on its own workers for asking for better salaries and benefits, as Hamilton Nolan noted over at Splinter last year, when Delta was trying to direct the exact same dimwitted campaign at its own cargo and ramp workers:
They make the all time classic corporate threat
—“During negotiations, everything would be on the table – and as a result, things could get better, stay the same, or get worse.”
—without mentioning that the only way that things could get worse would be if they, the Delta corporation, insisted on making them worse, as retaliation.
Their explanation of what labor unions do includes the criticism that during a union campaign
“Uncertainty typically rules for a long time,” and that “Negotiations for a first contract in the airline industry can take years”
—two more things that happen as a direct result of Delta’s own conduct, not the union’s.
The site prominently warns that signing a union card is “NOT confidential, you are giving your personal information to the IAM.” Directly next to this warning is a box where Delta solicits workers’ personal emails to send them more anti-union emails.
And, most impressively....
It includes an ACTUAL cartoon of a “fat cat” union leader, counting money.
And while negotiations can take a long time, let’s also note that the only reason negotiations over salary happen in the first place, rather than just being unilaterally being imposed upon workers, is because of a union. Unions provide that opportunity.
Continued here via Jalopnik:
https://jalopnik.com/delta-thinks-its-employees-are-morons-1834648896
Eoin Higgins, a senior editor and staff writer with Common Dreams, first spotted the poster from Delta that you can see above, which appears to be part of its anti-organizing campaign against the International Association of Machinists and the ongoing effort to unionize Delta’s flight attendants. It’s titled “Don’t Risk It Don’t Sign It.” The “it,” in this regard, ostensibly refers to union cards, which workers sign to indicate their willingness to join a union.
But the “risk,” of course, can only refer to punitive measures that Delta can impose on its own workers for asking for better salaries and benefits, as Hamilton Nolan noted over at Splinter last year, when Delta was trying to direct the exact same dimwitted campaign at its own cargo and ramp workers:
They make the all time classic corporate threat
—“During negotiations, everything would be on the table – and as a result, things could get better, stay the same, or get worse.”
—without mentioning that the only way that things could get worse would be if they, the Delta corporation, insisted on making them worse, as retaliation.
Their explanation of what labor unions do includes the criticism that during a union campaign
“Uncertainty typically rules for a long time,” and that “Negotiations for a first contract in the airline industry can take years”
—two more things that happen as a direct result of Delta’s own conduct, not the union’s.
The site prominently warns that signing a union card is “NOT confidential, you are giving your personal information to the IAM.” Directly next to this warning is a box where Delta solicits workers’ personal emails to send them more anti-union emails.
And, most impressively....
It includes an ACTUAL cartoon of a “fat cat” union leader, counting money.
And while negotiations can take a long time, let’s also note that the only reason negotiations over salary happen in the first place, rather than just being unilaterally being imposed upon workers, is because of a union. Unions provide that opportunity.
Continued here via Jalopnik:
https://jalopnik.com/delta-thinks-its-employees-are-morons-1834648896
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