“Where’s Ed?”  Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports the Association of Flight Attendants-Communications Workers of America (AFA-CWA) posed that question while on informational picket lines.  They toil for rabidly Anti-Union Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian, a graduate of St. Bonaventure University in Olean, New York.  The AFA-CWA, Machinists and Teamsters are jointly campaigning to organize Delta’s Flight Attendants, Grounds Crews and Ramp Agents.  There are 20,000 Ramp Workers alone and thousands more Mechanics and Flight Attendants, all - right now, unorganized.  That’s unlike their colleagues at the Nation’s other three biggest Air Carriers - Southwest, United, and American.  The picketing Workers suffered from grounded planes and sweltered on picket lines in Atlanta and the Twin Cities on July 24th.  Later, they toiled to get Delta back on track after a massive Internet/computer shutdown grounded the airline’s entire schedule.  Delta took at least four days to recover.  Other airlines recovered in less than a day.  And where was Ed? - AFA-CWA’s ad posted on its Twitter/X feed asked. Answer: Ed had flown off to Paris to see the Olympics.  “Ed is quite literally leaving us behind while we deal with this mess.  While operations are looking better today, things are far from normal.  Many of us are STILL far from home,” the Union tweeted.

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