South Florida Business Journal
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 5:35pm EST
Several Delta flight attendants sued the airline Wednesday in Minneapolis claiming their profit sharing checks were lower “based solely upon their prior union membership,” according to the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA).
The suit was filed on behalf of pre-merger Northwest flight attendants, who are now Delta Air Lines employees. The union claims Delta management withheld higher profit sharing checks from more than 7,500 pre-merger Northwest flight attendants.
Delta said it has not yet been served the suit, but released a statement in response to AFA’s press release:
“Until representation is fully resolved, NMB rules require that we continue to administer two separate sets of pay, benefits and work rules. This means, for example, that pre-merger Northwest flight attendants received a separate pay increase on January 1 as well as other items that are not part of the pre-merger Delta package. Providing in addition the higher pre-merger Delta rates of pay and profit-sharing would not be equal, it would be preferential. All of our employee groups -- union or non-union -- have had pay, benefits and work rules aligned when they’ve resolved representation, not piecemeal.”
