The National Mediation Board, which is the agency coordinating airline and railroad industry labor relations, was the one that proposed and went ahead and overturned the 75 year old election rule, is also supposedly independent. But look who two of the three board members are: Linda Puchala (formerly AFA) and Harry Hoglander (formerly ALPA)...Don't tell me Puchala has no axe to grind with Delta considering AFA's multiple failed attempts to organize Delta flight attendants over the last decade.

Point is that the Obama administration has made the NMB as pro-union as possible, and the unions had delayed calling elections specifically at Delta so that the NMB could push through the rule change. After all that work, the unions still encountered a majority of NO votes at ALL of the Delta elections, so they have now resorted to interference claims in order to get another try...