RESERVATION AGENT EMPLOYEES WORKING AT HOME!

Did you know that within the District 143 membership, Reservation Agents of Alaska Airlines work from their home location? Imagine the opportunity to avoid the commute to the office in all kinds of weather. Think about the money savings and wear and tear on your family car!

On days when you would have perhaps been tardy or had the beginnings of the cold or the flu, or everyone in the office is coming to work sick, you can work quietly from your own home office...

What would you be willing to trade for this opportunity, or what would you be willing to give up? NOTHING IF YOU ARE AN IAM MEMBER AT ALASKA!

After a year long investigation, the Alaska Management Group agreed that the IAM was right when it demanded...that the RESERVATION AGENT WORKING FROM THEIR HOME IS AS VALUABLE AS THE ONE WORKING IN THE OFFICE AND THEREFORE WILL BE TREATED AS THOUGH THEY ARE IN THE OFFICE!! IN EVERY WAY!!

Yes, this means that the salary, holiday release, overtime, insurance, and even the trade day policy is identical to the employee who prefers to work in the office. WHY SHOULDN'T IT BE SO??

An interested employee need only put their name on a list to express their desire to work at their residence. Part time or full time, it is not restricted to one group. There is a percentage at each office that works from home, selected by seniority.

Equal pay and benefits for all reservation members. Brought to them by the IAM officers of District 143. The union officials who fought for these conditions had over 60 years of reservation seniority between them!! They knew this could work!! They knew first hand how stressful being a reservation agent is, taking call after call, irregardless of where you service your passengers.

Whether you are in the office with your colleagues or in your home, please come join us so that we may preserve, defend, and secure proper compensation and benefits for your hard work.

A MESSAGE TO ALL OUR FUTURE UNION SISTERS AND BROTHERS ON DELTA AIR LINES

The IAM union organizing drive on Delta Airlines has proceeded amazingly well. Employees of Delta Airlines have received our literature with great enthusiasm. They have also expressed to us repeatedly how they need a union on that property and how happy they were to see us handbilling their work site(s).

We have disseminated information to all classifications with a few exceptions – the clerical, office, and administrative support groups. The majority of those people are stationed in Atlanta. We have been unable to secure permits to handbill the buildings where we believe most of the clerical groups work due to state and local ordinances and Delta management not allowing us to do so.

Regardless of obstacles facing us to date, we are determined to extend our union message to those employees as well.

We need your assistance towards that goal.

We are asking any Delta employee who has a spouse, partner, friend or co-worker who works in those related areas at ANY location to contact those individuals and ask them if they would like to receive IAM literature for themselves or their co-workers. (They can contact us by email or phone shown below.) Additionally, any NWA IAM clerical employees can help us as well by directing Delta clerical to our IAM District 143 contact email and phone numbers.

alwojcik@iamdl143.org
734-637-2224
1-800-544-1461, extension 348

Thank you all for your help towards a more secure future by making Delta another IAM union airline.



Al Wojcik
General Chair
IAM Air Transport District 143

WHAT WE KNOW, YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BROKEN PROMISES

At both Delta and Northwest, we are proud employees, especially for the work we do in spite of many obstacles we face on a day-to-day basis. However at Northwest, we are not so proud of those who have run our company. We have great experience with promises being made and deliberately broken. We voluntarily voted to save our airline in 1993. In exchange for the gamble, we were promised stock in Northwest by none other than Richard Anderson. When it came time to pay up, guess what? Richard reneged. Fortunately, we had the IAM and were able to use our collective strength to go to Federal Court to force payment. The Court ordered NWA to honor their obligation. Northwest then tried to use the bankruptcy system to wipe out their promise and once again with the help of the IAM, we were able to get money paid out of the bankruptcy settlement.

Now, something alarming to Northwest employees has happened. Richard Anderson, the guy in charge of broken promises at NWA, has landed the job of CEO of Delta Air Lines. Worse, he is busy recruiting many from his old Northwest team to come join him to make all the same decisions at Delta. Let’s take a look at Richard’s “Corporate Leadership Team” as five of these decision makers hand selected by him have ties to Northwest; Ben Hirst (SVP-General Counsel), Steve Gorman (EVP-Operations), Mike Becker (EVP & COO-Northwest), Laura Liu (SVP-International), and Theresa Wise (SVP-Chief Information Officer). Plus, how many of the fifty-one (51) additional officers that have been named in the organizational charts are from the Northwest broken promise team? Richard’s mantra, “Let’s Keep Delta Our Delta” is a farce. What you are seeing is the creation of something we have lived with in the past. The difference? We now recognize a wolf in sheep’s clothing and we know when Richard is trying to pull the wool over our eyes. The Delta management team is hoping, planning, and plotting that the employees do not have the benefit of a unified voice. They want us with no defense. They want a world of promises with no consequences…and broken promises that cannot be fixed. Don’t be fooled by Mr. Anderson’s charisma, allure, and silver tongue. There is one agenda and it’s not pretty. The bottom line, he’s only interested in his well being, not yours.

Some may think that Delta taking over Northwest would be a fresh start, and that can be exciting. But we know the “Dream Team” and exactly what they are capable of. They can paint a rosy picture and we have seen that before. But don’t be fooled. Delta has made several pay and benefit improvements since the IAM effort has started. They saw what all the unionized employees at the other carriers got after bankruptcy and have started to float back up to that level. There will be more. They have started to add pay back and have craftily called it a raise, when in reality it is still less than pre-bankruptcy. Remember it’s not a raise as management has stated. It’s part of what Delta took from you in bankruptcy. A raise would be if they gave back everything they took from you, plus more. They have made promises of more, all in hopes no one will notice that those promises are not in writing, not in a contract. Again, don’t be sucked in by the rosy picture.

Delta will say employees are empowered by a “Direct Relationship” with management. What they truly want is a one sided relationship; one where they hold all the cards, make all the decisions, and make any promises they want but cannot be held to because there is no collective bargaining agreement. WE should have a vote. Delta’s promises should mean something more than mere words. Those promises should be in writing. That way, if they are broken, they can be fixed.

WE ALL BENEFIT WHEN WE SAY UNION YES!!