DELTA AIR LINES TO BE SUED BY UNIONS

Airline worker unions, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), have been told they have grounds to sue Delta over its attempts to seal its merger with Northwest by integrating both companies’ employees. Delta and Northwest Airlines merged in 2008, when Delta began a seniority integration process to combine its employees with those of Northwest. The unions allege the action constituted unlawful interference with employees’ rights to choose their own representatives. US District Judge Richard Roberts ruled that “No representation dispute lurks within the four corners of AFA’s amended complaint or