A CHARMING, WELL SPOKEN TRUTH-BENDER!

DELTA TO SPEND MILLIONS ON UPCOMING UNION BATTLES
PREPARE TO BE ‘DAZZLED’ WITH DISTORTED INFORMATION

In the very entertaining movie, ‘Thank You For Smoking,’ actor Aaron Eckhart plays the role of the Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. This ‘institute’s main purpose is to disprove the link between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer. Aaron Eckhart (Nick Taylor) is an affable, likeable and extremely charming and gifted talker. Not surprisingly the Institute’s main funding comes from Big Tobacco.

When he appears before a Senate hearing to argue against placing the skull and crossbones on cigarette packages, you can’t help but like him and his skilled approach as he debates and testifies before the Senate committee. His charm and wit are mesmerizing. He almost makes one feel good about smoking and dying of lung cancer.

Yep, having a skilled orator and wordsmith is worth its weight in gold. Nick Taylor (Aaron Eckhart) reminds me of someone else I have met, someone I have listened to before a packed audience, someone who is also charming and engaging. Richard Anderson can hold a crowd with his words; he can elicit broad smiles and outbursts of spontaneous applause.

He makes promises almost as quickly as he seems to make new friends. Industry standard pay and “looking into doing away with the social security off-set” on our frozen Delta pensions are just a couple of his quick retorts in front of eager Delta employees.

And folks, he doesn’t mean a word of it! A charming, well-spoken, smooth truth bender!

Just ask your Northwest colleagues about what he promised to them while he was their CEO and what he actually ended up trying to do. Thank goodness most of them were protected by iron-clad union contacts. Their bankruptcy took much from them but without the IAM standing with Northwest employees they would have lost so much more.

Did you know that early retirees at Northwest receive medical insurance for $35 dollars a month until Medicare kicks in? We get nothing!

In the coming weeks be prepared to be dazzled with very highly paid lobbyists hired by Delta to tell you about the ‘evils’ associated with unionization. Before they are done with us we will think that the lies they tell us will have some basis in truth. They will be charming and smooth just like ‘Nick Taylor’ and Richard Anderson and they will have low level company apologists standing in the corner with them espousing the same convoluted rhetoric.

Just remember, union members make on average 30% more than non-union workers with much better benefits that can’t be changed on a whim because of the signed contracts; the same kind of contracts that Richard Anderson and Ed Bastian have and wouldn’t dream of working for anyone without!

Having a charming, well-spoken leader translates into nothing concrete without a written contract. When is a lie not a lie? When enough people are convinced that the hollow promises and dressed-up distortions are true.

This is our last great hope to improve our future and the stability of our families. Don’t be bamboozled by the spin doctors and snake-oil salesmen. Stand up, sign the authorization card and vote union.