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Union labels Delta the 'airline of the one-percent' in FAA bill push
The parent group of the union for flight attendants said Tuesday that Delta Airlines was the "airline of the one-percent" for its efforts to convince lawmakers to add labor provisions to a long-term funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Drawing parallels to the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement, in which protestors are criticizing businesses on behalf of "the 99 percent" they say are not benefitting from lawmakers' economic decisions, the Washington, D.C.-based Communications Workers of America said in a video released Tuesday that Republicans were putting Delta above the FAA's funding needs.
"House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica and some Republicans cost taxpayers $400 million to aid Delta's anti-union efforts," the ad says. "Contact Delta now and tell them to put American jobs first, before more jobs are grounded."
The union applauded remarks this week by Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), who said in a speech this week that he did understand "how the fixation of one airline can be seen as paramount in such that the House would shut down the FAA to get its way."
“Sen. Rockefeller deserves credit for highlighting what’s at stake and, while being willing to compromise on provisions relevant to the FAA bill, refusing to bend on the unrelated union busting provision that Delta Air Lines and its Republican allies are obsessed with,” CWA Communications Director Candice Johnson said in a statement. “Delta Air Lines should re- brand itself as ‘The Official Airline of the One Percent.”
