Originally Posted by
sxf24
The galley gossip is pretty off-base and misleading in this regard.
Both airlines have different retirement plans. While some NW employees near retirement may get more than equally tenured DL colleagues, the Delta Retirement Plan offers the majority of flight attendants better benefits, largely because it has not been frozen or terminated.
What may be most telling is that while the non-represented DL employees have suffered the same layoffs and wage reductions as the rest of the industry, they've continued to maintain the same level of benefits and have received wage increases at a much faster rate then if the were represented.
I don't know how you can say this is galley gossip, it's a fact. We were talking pensions.
The last raise that the DL Flight Attendants received was just 3%. After taxes, big whoop. Besides, the DL Flight Attendants aren't working with a contract. DL can and has taken away benefits of the Flight Attendants at the drop of a hat.
And by the way, calling my post galley gossip is both insulting and disrespectful.