Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports President Donald Trump rails against crime in Washington, D.C.’s streets, but he might be looking in the wrong place. He should try the corporate suites instead - specifically, Delta Airlines, which falsely claimed it followed a section of the Coronavirus Aid Law that the Association of Flight Attendants-Communications Workers of America (AFA-CWA) crafted: Limiting executives’ compensation while keeping Workers flying, at full pay, even on empty airplanes. Delta, the Nation’s largest airline, got caught by an unidentified whistleblower, so it paid an $8.1 million fine to the Federal Government for falsifying records of its pay to its executives and for lying about laying off its Workers during the Coronavirus Pandemic. As part of the plea deal with Theodore Hertzberg, the U.S. Attorney for Atlanta, the Airline was permitted not to admit or deny guilt - but it paid anyway. Two Unions that are trying to organize Delta’s unorganized Workers - the AFA-CWA and the International Association of Machinists (IAM), are in no doubt about the carrier’s wrongs. AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson, who played a key role in crafting the provisions Delta CEO Ed Bastian’s Airline broke: “Union Leaders and executives came together to negotiate the Payroll Support Program (PSP, as a key part of the coronavirus relief law) and pushed for Congress to pass it, not once, but three times.” Bastian “was absent” from negotiations over the program, said Nelson, adding: “We fought tooth and nail for a program that protected the Workers who were at risk of losing everything in the pandemic and ensured our airlines could remain intact to meet demand when travel returned. We applaud the whistleblowers who came forward to shine a light on this gross injustice and violation of a law that simply required Delta to use government relief funds to pay their Workers and not their executives.”

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