AFA-CWA Goes Global to Protect Delta Workers' Rights

AFA-CWA is asking the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to encourage Delta Air Lines to reform its labor practices and fully respect its workers' rights to organize.

Delta's aggressive campaign against an AFA-CWA organizing drive earlier this year violated its flight attendants' rights, which in turn violated OECD guidelines, union leaders said.

"The guidelines provide that multinational enterprises such as Delta should respect the right of their employees to form trade unions," AFA-CWA's letter to OECD stated. Delta's campaign "was calculated to suppress voter turnout in the union election through a variety of means, including flooding flight attendants with pervasive anti-union messages, instructing flight attendants to destroy balloting instructions, harassing union supporters, interfering with pro-union communications among its employees, and providing benefits timed specifically to undermine union support."