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AFA-CWA filed formal interference charges with the National Mediation Board this week against Delta Air Lines, charging that the airline used intimidation and other unlawful tactics to coerce workers and influence the vote during the union election among 20,000 flight attendants. Flight attendants came within 328 votes of winning an AFA-CWA voice

TNG-CWA members who include some of the San Francisco Chronicle?s best-known journalists are using Facebook to tell their story in a bargaining battle that?s now six months old.

Fighting against fierce management intimidation, Delta Air Lines flight attendants came within 328 votes of winning an AFA-CWA voice and bargaining rights. The vote was 9,216 for union representation and 9,544 for no union. The turnout was huge, about 94 percent of the more than 20,000 eligible flight attendants voted in the National Mediation Board election.

The AFL-CIO and Mexico?s independent labor federation UNT, Uni?n Nacional de Trabajadores, have signed a joint action plan to help rebuild the industrial base in the United States and Mexico, ensure workers? rights and coordinate bargaining across borders. The agreement builds on years of joint work between U.S. and Mexican unions, in particular, CWA?s long working relationship with STRM, the independent union of telephone workers.