What Delta Doesn't Want You to Know 

If they had shame they would never be able to become a CEO.

They can afford to have no shame.

@RobertWhittle-jo9iv Airlines barely break even while Ed Bastien pockets $34 million each and every year he's at Delta. Let's do the math together: After two years, that's $68 million. After three years, that's over $100 million. The cost of that plane ticket is not because the ramp workers have unionized and their salary is now $25 or $30 per hour.

@RobertWhittle-jo9iv Most of the ticket price goes to stock holders especially with stock buy backs, the workers should get their fair share

They are addicts. The wealthy-class is made up of corrupt people who are more addicted to their lifestyles than the working-class people who are addicted to drugs. The addicts from the corrupt wealthy-class will NEVER willingly give up their addictions. In fact, they will use their corrupt RW-politics to fabricate situations(WARS) that cause working-class people to lose their lives before they will EVER give up their wealth & lifestyle-addictions. And, what's worse than the addicts in the corrupt wealthy-class are the desparate working-class dupes who will step on their fellow working-class mates just to become like the addicts in the corrupt wealthy-class.

Yes. That is laughable. IBM told us not to lift more than 25 lbs. And made us take back safety courses that said the same thing. Back then, a hard drive in a mainframe disk drive weighed 89 lbs and you had to line it up perfectly to get it to slid in on rails onto pins. Some power supplies were 125 lbs. At least those were at the bottom of the frame of the machines. Your manager and co-workers would be really unhappy if you called someone in on overtime to assist.

​@@Growmap I worked for EDS and they were the greatest employer of my career. They acquired our data center at Equifax, we did credit card and check processing for thousands of small banks and credit unions. Under Eqfx management the hardware was from the stone age and the mainframe would crash several times a day, it was a nightmare. When EDS took over, the whole shop was stocked with state of the art everything. The CPU was capable of running three companies processing and it would run or batch cycles so fast, we would finish nightly processing hours ahead of schedule. Digital storage meant no waiting for tape mounts, tape silos for data that needed to go offsite gave the tape guys time to ear and do crosswords. The print room got four twinned ultra high speed lasers with roll feeders and folding tables, 400 pages per minute printing the form and data front and back. I could keep all four running, so long as I had someone bringing supplies and moving the output. The boss was used to seeing three guys in the print shop and was floored when he'd see me alone in there. That company paid well and gave us great benefits. Then IBM took over the Equifax account and while the pay was still good, it wasn't managed as well as EDS.

Home Depot, aka Home Disability

@@Eric-ACDid the same to me. I did clearly labeled team lifts by myself almost daily due to them not staffing enough people.

Nursing as well.

? This is not an employee owned company all profits go to the shareholders and top tier echelon of Delta! Now we know.

Now why would you think bag fees going directly to bag handlers? It’s not a tip. Did you know that bags require fuel and space in an airplane to move them from one place to another? Bag handlers touch the bags maybe 1 minute during the entire journey lol

@@Burnlit1337 this has to be satire? Unbelievable.

@@inb2551you’re obviously very uninformed. Every Feb 14th, all employees receive a profit sharing check.

Employees get a bonus cut based off the previous years profit

They do get livable wages. They make more than me and I'm a commercial contractor

I'll start appreciating them when they start treating me like a human being and not an inconvenience to them 😂

​@@SgtJoeSmithThis is such a stupid statement. Im impressed you had the thought and decided to actually share it.

@@SgtJoeSmithmaybe you are poor too

@Jasaub I am. Cause my employees are too greedy and won't let me have a living wage

Yeah but how many of the people will file grievances that are false.

​@Hunter96187 why are you simping for mega corporations bro? They don't give a fuck about you

@@Hunter96187probably similar to the amount of senior execs committing fraud

@@Hunter96187 No need to. Management will give you *plenty* of legitimate reasons to file a grievance.

​@@Hunter96187how many people do you know filling false reports?

I am an IAM union as well, it feels so great to have some support!

I wish I didn't live in a red state. Mechanics aren't treated that well.

@@nrgpup77what does a red state have to do with you forming a union? Lmfao that’s a people not wanting or advocating for a union problem

@@Dee-ye2dk note your own comment, googlefu legislation, observe ratio of union to non union

@@nrgpup77I’d have to agree, what you said made no sense.

That Part

I haven’t flown much lately, but they’re the main ones I look for with tickets. I haven’t been let down with any flight I’ve had with them yet.

Exactly, unionization benefits all of us. The employee, the company, and the customers receiving the services. This is made incredibly obvious by many different companies but the best to look at is UPS

Boom!!!!!!!

@@whatsonhermindblog123 Was that supposed to be logical?

I agree Captain, my brother as a ramp rat in Detroit and he and his colleagues work under very harsh conditions, especially if they are working the De-Icing station in -20 degree weather with the wind blowing at 15 mph or higher.

I'd love to be a pilot. I'll trade you!

Yep, I did this work thru college, its hard work and its dangerous. I always think about it when I'm sitting on the flight deck, very appreciative.

U d0nt know any better then. The new unions are w0rse than previous

@@kingofthecastlegooglelie5150 ?

@@kingofthecastlegooglelie5150 ?

@@kingofthecastlegooglelie5150 IAM was the same union Northwest workers had. It's the same union.

Yeah, and what happened to those companies? They were union and now they are no longer. Unions are company killers slowly. Overtime unions kill the company and then all those people that were union. Don’t have a job. If you want more money, then make yourself more valuable to earn the money that you want. It’s quite simple.

Yep. And companies regularly try to prevent them from doing it.

Ever since anti-union propaganda got traced back to Charles and David Koch, their sponsored propaganda has been slightly less effective. Economic discrepancies exacerbated by the pandemic further helped the public realize how raw of a deal they've been getting since the '980s.

My union I just got Fd. Got a raise and now I make less money.

This November remember who is for Unions, voting, and the American worker class and who is for the greedy CEO class & against voting! VOTE while you still can!

lol. How did that work out for eastern airlines? Unions are parasites. They sick their hosts to death.

United’s union is a joke

Hoping they don't break or lose your luggage?😂

@@AB0BA_69no. thankful there’s hard working men doing the hard work and wishing they would be compensated for it.

Do you think you should pay more on your ticket so that Delta can compensate them more?

​@@Name-jw4sj We pay more on tickets to compensate CEOs multi-million dollars yearly bonus and stock buy backs for share holders 😂😂😂

What is a corporation?

As a former teacher I think teacher tenure is despicable. Unions do have a bad side.

And they own the world too….slavelandia!

@@bevinboulder5039 they provide a service that you choose. What does gubment do?

The corporation is the one providing the job in the first place. Your mentality is horrible.

They do. Delta provides a lot of this and the employees are paid well.

@@JKrepJC but do they provide all of it? Nope, they don’t. These companies need to be kept on a short leash. That’s how to hold power to account.

You don't need an employer to have a retirement savings account.

@@whatsonhermindblog123 you're welcome to contribute and pay for all these things in the company you create. I'll wait.

It's better to have a retirement savings account through an employer.

That's too much for shareholders

@@InvisibleHotdog Because of Dodge v Ford and eBay v Newmark, even executives with a conscience can't take any measures to mitigate such crises without getting themselves sued.

I don’t understand the reasoning for this because I use to work there and was paid well plus the bonuses were amazing.

$37+ an hour is not livable?

@@aphil066 Lol... try harder... $37 if you top out in 10 years, 10 years!!! But even with that, you dont even know how bad and expensive the health insurance is. And why dont you mention how Delta cut Full-time 40 hour work weeks? So yea, try harder next time.

They sleep very well in their million dollar homes lol

@@reneecollin8825 Sadly, they sleep well at night because they are doing the bidding of Wall Street. Gotta make those quarterly results look good so that Ed Bastian can get his spot on CNBC with Phil Le Beau. Remember, Ed Bastian was groomed by former Delta CEO, Richard Anderson who was an attorney. That says it all right there.

@@DeaconChriss When you do not have integrity you sleep good LoL

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Should of asked her if she takes little debby trades

Not to mention the health insurance. That costs a fortune.

Thank you for practicing solidarity.

Everybody is just a number.

May I ask how was you injured on the job?

😮 this is terrible

@@Invictus1017 automation isn’t far away where will only need few for ramp. This will speed it up hopefully.

@@TheRealTommyR Spain

@@TheRealTommyR they're not even the nicest, France normally takes the cake on those

I’m an American who lived in Barcelona for ten years and I benefited from the social medicine there. It’s very humane, not like here in the US.

@@javiskii a dud sissy Euro country of course.

@@javiskii well maybe you should talk to your politicians about that. They’re the ones that set the minimum sick time that company must provide.

i am too, i couldn't stifle a laugh when i heard that line. what a bootlicker.

@@christina3maria lol, we should all get our lungs compared to healthy lungs. I wonder how much they'd have to pay out

@@whatsonhermindblog123 I want you to go and start your own business and work to grow your business and have people invest in your business to help grow your business and then you tell me how much work all that is, then only to have the people that you hire complain about it.

Not much truth was spoken on that stage.

Truth is a rare occurrence in politics.

@@handlemonium what did oh Jon Lewis do when alive? DAL HQ and ATL in his district. Nothing. But you kept voting for him for 40 yrs. 😂

@@USIscreaminEagles lol jokes on you I'm not even 400 months old 🤣

@@handlemoniumnah dawg your the one cryin about being a broke azz

Pick the j0b you like. You have choices, still freed0m s0 far.

The company has positions that they fill. It is a two-way agreement. If you don’t like your job find another one that pays what you want.

What's your point? Top executives get free cars and gym memberships. And they fly private.

Don’t get me started on UGE.

That is absolute horseshit. Always knew the Big D was rotten-but that one takes the cake.

That's for manufactures.

Perfect I hope that plan keeps working. I would hate to see another union at Delta.

3 or 4 of the ceos annual 34 million could change the lives of 300-400 employees throwing them an extra 10,000$ a year He could still be rich. 3-400 people could stop worrying. Maybe buy the groceries they want. Replace there car every 5 years instead of 10

@@JL-yl8gd Delta has 90000 employees. $300 each. Then let’s hire an illiterate jr high dropout from college park as CEO and pay in weed.

You got your fax wrong. Delta did not have a layoff in the 90s. The only layoff that happened at Delta was after 911. was a part of that layoff and they did everything they could to lay off as few people as possible

Why don’t you rampers go and study to become a mechanic or pilot instead of working on the ramp which is a dead end job that requires no education I am not trying to be mean but no employer will pay uneducated worker higher pay examples are surgeon compared to burger flipping,it is what it is

That’s like saying cnas should be paid the same as dr’s. No, while yes they need more pay.

Because pilots, dispatchers, ramp agents, etc. all usually fall into different specialty unions who understand the needs of that core work group and have experience representing that working group. So you can’t just have one large union representing everyone at the company in this instance due to the large number of specialized positions. Therefore, each group, if not already unionized, would need to fund and organize their own union drive. Lastly, I’m not a Delta Pilot, but I am a pilot for a competitor here in the US, and I’m certain they had to deal with the same B.S. that we did/constantly do. Let me tell you, that “princess pilot group” had to fight tooth and nail for everything they have, most likely donated extra money out of their own pockets month after month, year after year to pool extra money for lawyers and negotiations. Had their CBA violated at every convenience to the company, dealt with stalled negotiations and scare tactics, etc. you name it. And this isn’t me talking down on any position, but go ahead and apply for a pilot position at a legacy/major US airline and just see how hard it is to even get looked at. You better have a squeaky clean record, no training issues, no speeding tickets or any driving infractions, no mental health issues, solid four year GPA, leadership experience, etc. on top of the thousands of hours of flight time required. It took me eight years (which isn’t uncommon) to sit in the right seat of an Airbus, coupled with the cost of my education ($200k), the horrendous jobs I worked all over the US, substandard food stamp eligible pay, six days a week, 14 hours a day, for years. Companies love leaving that part out every time they want to bring up our “the princess pilots” pay, raises and schedules. It isn’t “us vs. you” but companies love to pose it that way. I really hope these guys and gals get everything they’re asking for.

You can't outsource pilots but you can outsource ramp work. Sad fact. Just ask Alaska Airlines (a Delta partner) about the Menzies in Seattle.

@@Tabby_Man_3 well said. from a ramp agent.

Billionaires are about themselves not the workers that's why unions are behind Harris...just saying

Southwest is rather anomalous in having most of their crew being in-house. Props to them for that. By the way, for those curious: United's current collective bargaining agreement with the Machinists dictates that core work at the following line stations (i.e. those which do not constitute any of the airline's hubs, which are also covered under the same clause) shall not be outsourced to contract vendors: ATL, AUS, BIL, BOS, BWI, CLE, COS, DCA, DFW, FLL, HNL, IND, KOA, LIH, OGG, JFK, LAS, LGA, MCO, MIA, MSP, MSY, PDX, PHL, PHX, PIT, RDU, RNO, SAN, SAT, SJC, SLC, SEA, SNA, TPA, and TUL.

@@729MendicantTideI live in PHX and fly with United as much as possible. My money dictates where I want to help

I’m a mechanic at Delta and I hope there’s never a union. They take care of us pretty well and that is not more evident than people who have left Delta to work union airline jobs and hate it, begging to come back

Southwest is the BEST!

Learning what? What one small group of people at accompany thinking feel, what about the 80% of us? They don’t want a union and that’s why we haven’t unionized.

Contact the CEO Put delta in the hot seat on social media….. Stuff like that I would say😊

Don’t believe this guy, not everyone at Delta feels the way he does, that’s why there’s not a union. I would say 80% or more of the people are against unionization at Delta.

Well, not everyone at Delta feels the way this guy does. I work for Delta and I love the company. They take very good care of us and I hope we never unionize ever I would quit before I work for a union again and then I would find a job that’s not union.

For many years the ONLY group that was organized were the pilots. That carried into the 90's.

I’m so glad this happened thank you Delta for breaking the union. I appreciate it. I would not be working for Delta if unionized. And I wouldn’t be anything against Delta it it would be against working with you unionized people.

The companies are the ones providing the jobs not the unions

I’m a Delta employee and I feel that they treat us pretty damn good. Pay is consent with skills and abilities. If you don’t make what you want, get training and apply for a position that pays what you want.

You answered your own question. Corporatism is so strong that they have normalized workers believing they don't deserve rights or fair pay.

It’s because the union is not all that it’s cracked up to be. I worked for Delta and I do not share this guy’s outlook or mindset. I feel they treat us very good. I love working in nonunion environment with non-union people. I’ve worked for a union and it’s a horrible workplace. Unionized people have the worst work ethic.