A Delta Airways flight attendantRobert Nickelsberg | Getty PicturesThe largest flight attendant union within the U.S. on Friday stated it's beginni
A Delta Airways flight attendant
Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Pictures
The largest flight attendant union within the U.S. on Friday stated it’s beginning a membership drive at Delta Air Lines, the largest U.S. airline with nonunionized cabin crews.
Delta has some 25,000 flight attendants, the corporate stated this 12 months.
The drive by the Affiliation of Flight Attendants-CWA, which additionally represents flight attendants at United and Spirit, comes amid an emboldening of labor unions across the nation, most just lately the 40-day strike of 48,000 members of the United Autoworkers Union at General Motors. It additionally coincides with an enormous hiring spree by Delta. The corporate stated final month that it needs to rent 12,000 individuals by 2020.
Different airline staff have just lately voted to unionize. JetBlue Airways flight attendants voted to arrange in April 2018.
Delta flight attendants rejected AFA illustration in 2010. Delta didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.