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Article: Delta Flight Attendants' Rights Trampled By Republican-Controlled Mediation Board; Supposedly Independent Board Shows Blatant Partisanship.
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- PR Newswire
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- December 13, 2002
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WASHINGTON -- In a shameful and contradictory decision, the National Mediation Board ignored precedent and the facts, rewrote the rules of company interference and issued a purely political decision to deny Delta Air Lines flight attendants the right to participate in a free and fair union election.
Board member Harry Hoglander stated in a rare dissenting opinion, "In their decision today, the Board majority fails to explain that their decision is a significant departure from Board precedent. In an attempt to justify and accept conduct which unquestionably 'tainted laboratory conditions,' the Board majority states they are 'troubled' and 'disturbed' by Delta's ...