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Delta flight attendants today moved closer to holding the first truly democratic election at the airline as the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA filed with the National Mediation Board to trigger a union representation election.

The Union and the Company met Wednesday morning at the full table. The Company passed proposals to include a waiting period for paid illness time and a retrogressive requirement for holiday pay.

In rejecting the airline industry's challenge to new, democratic rules governing representation elections for airline and railroad workers, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman said the National Mediation Board was fully within its rights to change the rules, and that the agency demonstrated "that the change is essential."

The death of Robert Byrd on Monday was the end of an era in West Virginia, where the country's longest-serving senator was a hero to CWA members and workers across the state who knew he was always in their corner.

A CWA Local 1126 member who was shot while working at an AT&T Wireless store in central New York will be honored at the CWA convention, along with the off-duty police officer who killed the gunman before he could hurt anyone else.