‘You’re not going to police us’: Delta Air Lines workers rally to demand union representation

Delta Air Lines workers, laborers and community allies gathered on Wednesday to demand union representation. On sidewalks yards away from a Delta Airlines employee parking lot, they held signs demanding a stop to union busting — an attempt by management to prevent employees from exercising their legal right to unionize — and yelled chants pressing for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union representation.Their shirts declared they were “standing on the shoulders of those who came before us.”“This campaign has been going on since 2014. We’ve had some strong union brothers and sisters transition out to die, and then we’ve had others to retire, but they fought the fight they started. We want to make sure they understand that we didn’t forget their beginning,” said Charlie Hood, the office manager for the Atlanta Delta ramp campaign. “Now we’re here in 2024 fighting the same fight they were fighting 10 years ago.”Delta Air Lines is considered the most profitable airline in the United States. However, while it leads in profits, it trails in union employees. Delta has the lowest percentage of workers represented by unions among major airliners, with the airline’s pilots and dispatchers as the only unionized...