Contents:

• No Displacements for April 2002
• Press Release: More Charges of Illegal Conduct Filed Against Delta Air Lines

No Displacements for April 2002

The Company has announced that they will not need any displacements for April 2002 as a result of flight attendant domestic base transfers and the Supplemental ITD bid awards. Therefore, flight attendants will not be displaced in April 2002.  If you have questions please contact your Inflight Supervisor.
 

WASHINGTON, DC * As the National Mediation Board's investigation into Delta's illegal conduct continues, new charges were filed today on behalf of Delta flight attendants to supplement the hundreds of affidavits filed on Sept. 6, 2001 charging Delta management with illegal conduct.

The case against Delta, filed by the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, contains evidence of illegal conduct * including harassment, intimidation, surveillance and the establishment of an illegal company dominated union * by Delta management in the flight attendants' union election that amounts to the most expensive and largest illegal anti-union campaign in history.

"The American government has the proof of illegal acts by Delta management," said AFA International President Patricia Friend.  "In the wake of the Enron scandal, the NMB's decision will show the world how serious those in Washington are about protecting American workers from outlaw employers."

The additional charges included evidence that Delta management falsely told the airline's over 3,000 furloughed flight attendants that they were not eligible to vote in the election, and that Delta used 9-11 to make flight attendants fear for their jobs if they voted for the union.

In October 2001, the NMB found that the flight attendant claims presented a prima facie case of illegal conduct by Delta (to view the NMB's decision, visit www.afanet.org.). But rather than take action to charge Delta with illegal conduct and provide the flight attendants with an atmosphere free from intimidation when voting, the NMB held off further investigation of the charges until after the election.

A majority of Delta's 19,000 flight attendants had signed representation cards by August 2001, when AFA filed a petition for an election with the NMB. Under NMB rules, 50 percent plus one of all eligible flight attendants must return a ballot for the election to be certified.  Thirty percent of the flight attendants returned ballots, which were counted on Feb. 1, 2002. The NMB then announced that it would immediately begin a full-scale investigation into Delta's illegal conduct.

If the NMB finds sufficient evidence that illegal interference occurred, it can set a new election.  AFA is asking for a new election with a balloting procedure that limit the effects of further illegal conduct by Delta management. 

The Delta vote was the largest union election ever in the airline industry. Delta is the only major U.S. air carrier whose flight attendants do not have union representation.

Almost 50,000 flight attendants at 26 carriers have joined together to form AFA, the largest flight attendant union in the world.  Visit us @ www.afanet.org.