L.A. Council Threatens To Boycott Delta Airlines Over Non-Existent "No Jew" Policy

• I did not fully understand the dreaded phrase “terminal illness” until I saw Heathrow for myself.

• Isn't banning all Israeli passport holders just the same as banning Jews or am i missing something?

• While the Delta story is old news, this reporter Gene Maddaus, caught my attention for his incredulous argument that "... Jews are allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia, it's Israeli passport holders who are banned."  Well, duh, Mr. Maddaus!?  Anyone ever tell you that Israeli passport holders are JEWS??  Ever hear of Israel and who lives there??  You attempt to make your ridiculous argument a sane one while smearing the likes of us who are equally incredulous that you could write something so stupid!    

• Matt and Lien you both are wrong.  As a former Delta employee yes the "culture is unique" but let's get down to the facts.  Union elections were held last year and each employee group voted collective bargaining DOWN.  The NMB which has 3 members 2 of which are Obama appointees and former union representatives have not agreed with the elections and unions have filed suit against Delta for "interferring" with elections.  BS!  I guess Delta Employees will be forced to vote again until union representation wins like the Gore V Bush election in 2000. Now Lien you say that Delta employees are largely in the dark but I beg to differ Fact:  Non union employees at Delta make more money than former Northwest employees.  Fact:  Delta pays there non union employees a larger Bonus than Northwest union employees were getting.  Fact:  Flight benefits are more liberal at non union Delta than at former unionized Northwest.  So you tell me Lien why would anyone at Delta vote for a union?  You tell me?

• Recently in Israel, they made it illegal to boycott against Israeli companies and compared doing so to terrorism.  Now, as soon as there is a rumor of anti-Semitism, the sympathizers attack with a boycott of their own. Hypocrites!

• Can governmental leaders get any dumber?  Really.... if they focused on doing their jobs and not all this BS grandstanding all the time over nonsense we would all be a lot better off.  Delta is about as Jewish friendly as any business gets.

• Matt, you couldn't be more wrong. The unions in question were  voted out late last year. Obviously, you're thinking of Delta's opposition to the National Mediation Board's ruling prior to those elections that the outcome of union voting in the airline industry must be based on the actual number of votes cast. This is a change from the previous, long-standing policy of counting all non-voting employees as if they had in fact voted NO to unionization. The more rabid faction of the Republicans, who had no problem before the rule was changed by the NMB, which now has  two Democrats sitting on its three-member board, see this as some sort of scheme contrived by President Obama  to curry favor with the unions. Probably so, but that doesn't mean much, and what is to be made of the Republicans being so much in favor of the old system? As an airline employee myself, I think it was about time that union elections were brought to the same voting standards applied to other elections. The reason airline CEOs are so worked up about this is because for every uninformed or even just plain lazy employee who doesn't vote, that's just another vote in the "NO" column. Delta's workers are largely in the dark about the reality of union representation (ask me how I know this) and apparently know only what their management tells them, which is why they always seem to vote against their own interests. All part of Delta's "unique culture".

• Delta is the only non-unionized airline however, and is not allowing a vote on whether employees want to become unionized, which is in direct violation of labor laws. This is actually the sticking point over the FAA debate, where the GOP is backing Delta's anti-union vote stance. I, for one, will no longer be using Delta.

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