Delta Airlines slammed for poster suggesting employees buy video games instead of paying union dues

[groundloop]

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/442992-delta-airlines-slammed-for-flyer-suggesting-employees-buy-video


Delta Airlines on Thursday was widely panned on social media for a poster suggesting its nonunion employees purchase a new video game system instead of paying union dues.

The poster, first shared on Twitter by Common Dreams editor Eoin Higgins, features a game controller with the message, "Union dues cost around $700 a year.”

“A new video game system with the latest hits sounds like fun,” the poster reads. “Put your money towards that instead of paying dues to the union.

Link to tweet

The poster has the Delta Airlines logo at the bottom of it along with a link the website DontRiskItDontSignIt.com, a website meant to dissuade Delta employees from signing “it,” in this case a union card.

A spokesperson from Delta did not address the poster directly when contacted by The Hill or confirm the website, which features a Delta logo and contact page, is affiliated with the company. The spokesperson said only that Delta employees “deserve the facts and we respect our employees’ right to decide if a union is right for them.”

“Delta has shared many communications, which on the whole make clear that deciding whether or not to unionize should not be taken lightly,” a spokesperson told The Hill in a statement.

Several users on Twitter decided seeing the poster was enough to no longer fly with the airline and called on others to boycott Delta.

By Thursday afternoon, the backlash had grown, with politicians including Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) weighing in and condemning Delta for the union-busting poster.

[raging moderate]

1. A sure sign of a miscalculation by management.

If I were a Delta employee, I would take these ads as a sure sign of how far management has miscalculated my IQ.

[jberryhill]

2. .

[tanyev]

3. Did they go to the same ad agency as Chase Bank? Shamers and Associates?

[Initech]

4. And how much did Delta's CEO make last year?

[MagickMuffin]

7. 13.2 mil

Post no2 has the info.

[treestar]

5. Aha so make it obvious that they don't want the union

Now why would that be?

[mn9driver]

6. The reason Delta does this is because it works.

Except for the pilots, Delta employee groups are not unionized. Every year or two, one of these groups gets enough cards signed to have an election. They are never successful.

[gratuitous]

8. They've not been successful so far

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.