Virgin America flight attendants have voted to remain a non-union shop with 223 voting for unionization and 324 voting no.  Under the both the new and old rules of the NMB, Virgin flight attendants would remain a non-union group.

It’s interesting to me that despite new airlines growth into larger and larger organizations and despite the perceived job protections and benefits afforded several labor groups at highly unionized airlines, these new airlines labor groups are generally all voting no to union leadership.

That makes me wonder if the perceived value of union leadership is just that diminished or are the airlines themselves simply doing a good and proper job in the way they treat these labor groups?  What is telling is that no one at these non-union airlines is suffering when it comes to work conditions and none are being fired arbitrarily either.  In fact, one could argue that at least one airline, Delta, treats its flight attendants generally better than most and particularly so for the most junior segment. 

These are curious times for unions as all have failed to gain ground and some have lost ground in these labor groups.

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