Flight attendants union says summer storms drove record Delta signatures

This summer's spate of weather disruptions to Delta Air Lines' operations has driven an increase in union interest among the carrier's flight attendants, organizers say.

According to the Association of Flight Attendants, which has been working to unionize Delta's nearly 30,000 flight attendants for decades, with a new campaign started in 2019, this June collected a record number of pro-union signatures seeking a union election.

In one month the union collected over 1,000 union authorization cards, according to 17-year Delta flight attendant and AFA organizer Jonnie Lane.

"That was due to people realizing that during the (disruptions), they didn't have the protections that other airline flight attendants had," she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"We had flight attendants who di