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Collective Bargaining
As of December 31, 2009, we had 81,106 full-time equivalent employees. Approximately 39% of these employees were represented by unions, including
the following domestic employee groups.
Approximate
Number of Active Date on which Collective
Employees Bargaining Agreement
Employee Group Represented Union Becomes Amendable
Delta Pilots 10,790 ALPA December 31, 2012
Delta Flight Superintendents (Dispatchers) 318 PAFCA December 31, 2013
Pre-merger NWA Fleet Service, Passenger Service, and Office/Clerical 9,407 IAM December 31, 2010
Pre-merger NWA Simulator Technicians 38 IAM December 31, 2010
Pre-merger NWA Stock Clerks 242 IAM December 31, 2010
Pre-merger NWA Flight Attendants 5,970 AFA-CWA December 31, 2011
Comair Pilots 1,314 ALPA March 2, 2011
Comair Maintenance Employees 400 IAM December 31, 2010
Comair Flight Attendants 764 IBT December 31, 2010
Compass Pilots 373 ALPA April 10, 2013
Mesaba Pilots 1,019 ALPA June 1, 2012
Mesaba Flight Attendants 623 AFA-CWA May 31, 2012
Mesaba Mechanics and Related Employees 353 AMFA May 31, 2012
Mesaba Dispatchers 28 TWU May 31, 2012
Labor unions periodically engage in organizing efforts to represent various groups of our employees, including at our airline subsidiaries, that are not
represented for collective bargaining purposes.
Integration of a number of the workgroups (including pilots and aircraft maintenance technicians) has been successfully completed. Completion of the
integration of certain workgroups (including flight attendants, airport employees and reservations employees) will require the resolution of representation
issues. We cannot predict when these representation issues will be resolved. However, as a result of our obtaining a single operating certificate from the FAA,
completing the merger of the NWA reservations system into Delta's system, and the merger of NWA into Delta, we believe we can achieve many of the
synergies of integrating the pre-merger Northwest operations into Delta's before the remaining employee representation issues are resolved.
Under procedures that have been utilized by the NMB, each labor union that represented U.S.-based employees at pre-merger Delta or NWA, as well as
other groups of employees with a sufficient showing of interest, may invoke the NMB's jurisdiction to address representation issues arising from the merger.
Once its jurisdiction is invoked, the NMB's rules call for it to first determine whether the airlines have combined or will combine to form a single carrier. On
January 7, 2009, the NMB ruled that Delta and NWA constitute a single transportation system for representation purposes under the Railway Labor Act in
response to applications filed by certain of the pre-merger unions at Delta and NWA.
The NMB has utilized certain procedures to address and resolve representation issues arising from airline mergers which generally have included the
following:
• Where employees in the same craft or class at the two carriers are represented by the same union, that union will be certified to represent the
combined group, without an election. 10