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Delta's non-unionized flight attendants could make another push to organize "in a few months," said Sara Nelson, head of a 55,000-member union. Nelson cited broader public support for labor as one driver of change.
Flight attendants at Delta Air Lines may soon make another push to unionize as broader public support for organized labor creates momentum, according to the head of the largest U.S. flight attendants union.
Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, said Tuesday that developments in the long-running campaign to organize Delta's cabin crew “maybe” could emerge "in a few months."
"The big change today is that we have a positive view of unions in the public," Nelson said onstage at the Skift Aviation Forum in Dallas-Fort Worth. "They're one of the most popular things in the country."
Nelson, who represents 55,