The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will reveal the outcome of a campaign by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) to organize 19,000 flight attendants at Delta Airlines. The organization vote---the largest in over three decades---is the result of a major battle that has been waged by the AFA since the mid 1990's, and has resulted in hundreds of charges of unfair labor practices engaged in by the least unionized of the major airlines. Delta defeated an organizing drive by ramp workers in 2000, and the successful unionization of its flight attendants would represent a major victory for organized labor.
See "Vote at Delta Is Key Test for Unions", LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN, The New York Times, January 30, 2002