Delta's 2008 4th quarter loss doubled compared to 2007. The reason: Delta's merger plan dose not include input from front line workers.
Management decisions alone resulted in Delta employees failing to get their anticipated profit sharing checks, and today the employees feel it in their pockets.
Delta and Northwest executives are failing their employees, but you can make the merger work. With the Machinists Union employees will have a collective voice that can compel positive change to secure everyone's future.
IT IS TIME FOR A BETTER FUTURE.
IT IS TIME FOR THE IAM.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
Monday, February 9, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
NO SECOND CLASS IN IAM
Delta Air Lines employs a large number of people they treat as second-class employees.
Called Ready Reserve, Delta dictates that these employees are restricted to no more than 1,000 hours of wok per year. Worse, they do not qualify for anything more than wages and some meager flight benefits. They cannot earn health care benefits, accrue vacations or receive sick pay.
Delta has been converting more and more full and part-time positions to Ready Reserve - with no end in sight.
Full-Time, Part-Time and Ready Reserve - everyone gets to vote in the election because everyone's future is at stake.
Take control of your future. Vote IAM!
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
Called Ready Reserve, Delta dictates that these employees are restricted to no more than 1,000 hours of wok per year. Worse, they do not qualify for anything more than wages and some meager flight benefits. They cannot earn health care benefits, accrue vacations or receive sick pay.
Delta has been converting more and more full and part-time positions to Ready Reserve - with no end in sight.
Full-Time, Part-Time and Ready Reserve - everyone gets to vote in the election because everyone's future is at stake.
Take control of your future. Vote IAM!
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
IAM REJECTED NWA DEMANDS
In bankruptcy, Northwest Airlines demanded IAM members limit vacation accrual to 4 weeks per year. Because the Machinists Union had the legal authority and resources to negotiate for our membership, IAM members accrue 6 weeks of vacation.
Northwest also wanted to have only two hub locations staffed with IAM members and subcontract their work in all other cities. The IAM rejected that proposal and ensured that our members continued working at 40 Northwest locations.
Northwest insisted retirees pay 50% of the COBRA rate for health insurance. Instead, IAM negotiators made sure retirees pay less than $30 a month for insurance.
Northwest Airlines also tried to eliminate lead positions, turning the jobs over to management. However, the IAM guaranteed that lead jobs still have the contract protection and pensions that only come with IAM membership.
Who defended Ramp, Passenger Service, Stores, Reservations, Office & Clerical, Guards and SimTech employees, along with all IAM retirees, against Northwest's unnecessary demands? The Machinists Union.
Who stood up in court to defend Delta workers and protect their rights? Nobody, because they don't have a union to stand behind them.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
Northwest also wanted to have only two hub locations staffed with IAM members and subcontract their work in all other cities. The IAM rejected that proposal and ensured that our members continued working at 40 Northwest locations.
Northwest insisted retirees pay 50% of the COBRA rate for health insurance. Instead, IAM negotiators made sure retirees pay less than $30 a month for insurance.
Northwest Airlines also tried to eliminate lead positions, turning the jobs over to management. However, the IAM guaranteed that lead jobs still have the contract protection and pensions that only come with IAM membership.
Who defended Ramp, Passenger Service, Stores, Reservations, Office & Clerical, Guards and SimTech employees, along with all IAM retirees, against Northwest's unnecessary demands? The Machinists Union.
Who stood up in court to defend Delta workers and protect their rights? Nobody, because they don't have a union to stand behind them.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
Thursday, January 15, 2009
IAM BARGAINING SURVEY
In preperation for contract negotiations that will commence after Northwest and Delta become a single carrier and the Machinists Union wins representation for the combined workforce, the IAM is surveying those employees to determine what they want in their first Delta Ar Lines contract.
You can take the Machinists Union's anonymous survey on the District 143 web site, www.iam143.org.
This survey is only one part of a proven program that will help the IAM deliver a contract that provides employees with guaranteed wage rates, improved benefits and enforceable work rules.
The final step is when the IAM members vote on their new contract terms.
Workers should not have to settle for whatever Delta management is offering. In the Machinists Union, members have a voice and a vote. Take the IAM's survey and let your voice be heard.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
You can take the Machinists Union's anonymous survey on the District 143 web site, www.iam143.org.
This survey is only one part of a proven program that will help the IAM deliver a contract that provides employees with guaranteed wage rates, improved benefits and enforceable work rules.
The final step is when the IAM members vote on their new contract terms.
Workers should not have to settle for whatever Delta management is offering. In the Machinists Union, members have a voice and a vote. Take the IAM's survey and let your voice be heard.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
A STRONG UNION MEANS A STRONG DELTA
The ground support team for Air Force One and employees at:
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- Southwest Airlines
- Comair
- United, Continental, US Airways and dozens of other airline & airline service companies
- Coca-Cola
- Boeing
- Harley-Davidson
- Lockheed-Martin
- United Parcel Service
- Amtrak
- General Electric
- Georgia Pacific
- Raytheon Missiles Co.
- Freightliner
- John Deere and more than 4,000 oher companies all have one thing in common.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
WHO SETS THE STANDARD?
In the IAM, YOU do.
Delta has put out wage graphs showing that the IAM and other unions set the standard for the industry. Southwest, American, United, Continental and US Airways are all heavily unionized carriers. Delta has said it intends to pay its employees less than workers at those carriers earn.
Delta has shown you what wages THEY think you should earn - somewhere in the middle of the industry. But the Machinists Union knows that YOUR sacrifice will help create the largest airline, and somewhere in the middle is just not good enough.
Where do YOU think you should be?
When the IAM negotiates contracts we survey the membership and solicit contract proposals to determine our members goals so we can secure the wages, benefits and working conditions that YOU want.
DON'T SETTLE FOR THE MIDDLE - REACH FOR THE TOP.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
Delta has put out wage graphs showing that the IAM and other unions set the standard for the industry. Southwest, American, United, Continental and US Airways are all heavily unionized carriers. Delta has said it intends to pay its employees less than workers at those carriers earn.
Delta has shown you what wages THEY think you should earn - somewhere in the middle of the industry. But the Machinists Union knows that YOUR sacrifice will help create the largest airline, and somewhere in the middle is just not good enough.
Where do YOU think you should be?
When the IAM negotiates contracts we survey the membership and solicit contract proposals to determine our members goals so we can secure the wages, benefits and working conditions that YOU want.
DON'T SETTLE FOR THE MIDDLE - REACH FOR THE TOP.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
Monday, December 22, 2008
SITTING UP ON CINDER BLOCKS
Almost everyone has seen the image of a car stripped clean of all useful parts sitting up on cinder blocks. Who hasn't watched a movie or television show depicting the scene where an unsuspecting victim goes to the wrong side of town in search of something at some store or business only to return minutes later finding their car laid waste with barely any valuable parts attached. Kind of funny isn't it?
Unless, of course, it happens to you!
Well, it has happened to us; all of us. We had great jobs less than a decade ago with pay and benefits that were worthy of our efforts. We were able to save money and take care of our families' wants and needs. Our kids looked forward to after school extra-curricular activities that cost just a few more dollars. We had health insurance choices that allowed most of us to take care of all our medical needs with hardly a worry. Our sick time and OJI coverage was adequate and mainly hassle free if all the rules were followed.
Life was good and then Delta came calling almost in the middle of the night and stripped us clean. Without union representation, we were left at the mercy of our executives and they spared us little but the bare "chassis" of our original benefit and pay package.
But don't worry, Delta has been promising to take us back to "industry standards" for a few years now and every so often they throw us a few of our car parts back in the form of modest, partial pay restorations or they slightly modify our benefits cosmetically.
These small enhancements are appreciated, don't get us wrong, but they don't get our cars off the cinder blocks. A windshield wiper or bucket of bolts and nuts doesn't make up for the missing engine, drive train or the wheels.
As a matter of fact, if we ever hope to have our cars leave the drive-way again we need all the parts returned and someone willing and capable of putting them back together; a master mechanic. We need the professionalism of the IAM.
They'll get us back on the road with a smooth running car and tank full of gas; not to mention the kind of insurance and backing that will give us the peace of mind should the thieves come calling in the night again.
That promise of industry standard pay and benefits will always be something just around the corner, just out of reach without the power and backing of a union and an IAM contract. Don't be fooled by modest benefits and pay enhancements; they will never add up to what we had before without the power and backing of a legally binding contract.
It's time to get the car off of the front lawn and back on the highway. It's time for the IAM.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
Unless, of course, it happens to you!
Well, it has happened to us; all of us. We had great jobs less than a decade ago with pay and benefits that were worthy of our efforts. We were able to save money and take care of our families' wants and needs. Our kids looked forward to after school extra-curricular activities that cost just a few more dollars. We had health insurance choices that allowed most of us to take care of all our medical needs with hardly a worry. Our sick time and OJI coverage was adequate and mainly hassle free if all the rules were followed.
Life was good and then Delta came calling almost in the middle of the night and stripped us clean. Without union representation, we were left at the mercy of our executives and they spared us little but the bare "chassis" of our original benefit and pay package.
But don't worry, Delta has been promising to take us back to "industry standards" for a few years now and every so often they throw us a few of our car parts back in the form of modest, partial pay restorations or they slightly modify our benefits cosmetically.
These small enhancements are appreciated, don't get us wrong, but they don't get our cars off the cinder blocks. A windshield wiper or bucket of bolts and nuts doesn't make up for the missing engine, drive train or the wheels.
As a matter of fact, if we ever hope to have our cars leave the drive-way again we need all the parts returned and someone willing and capable of putting them back together; a master mechanic. We need the professionalism of the IAM.
They'll get us back on the road with a smooth running car and tank full of gas; not to mention the kind of insurance and backing that will give us the peace of mind should the thieves come calling in the night again.
That promise of industry standard pay and benefits will always be something just around the corner, just out of reach without the power and backing of a union and an IAM contract. Don't be fooled by modest benefits and pay enhancements; they will never add up to what we had before without the power and backing of a legally binding contract.
It's time to get the car off of the front lawn and back on the highway. It's time for the IAM.
Learn more by visiting: www.goiamnow.org
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