Results of the largest organizing vote at any company in more than three decades will be learned tomorrow when federal officials are scheduled to announce whether a majority of 19,000 flight attendants at Delta Air Lines (news/quote) voted to join the Association of Flight Attendants.

The union's four-year campaign was dealt a major setback by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, which traumatized many flight attendants and sent the airline industry into a tailspin.

Now, even some of the union's supporters at Delta doubt that its efforts will succeed. Others are less pessimistic but admit that winning at Delta, which has long resisted unions, was always an uphill battle.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/business/31AIR.html