The JetBlue president, Joanna Geraghty, warned employees against joining a union or participating in union activity in an email last month and claimed the company’s successes wouldn’t be possible if workers unionized, the Guardian can reveal. The warning from JetBlue’s management came in response to organizing drives by the Transport Workers Union (TWU) to unionize about 6,400 airport operation agents and roughly 1,000 mechanics at JetBlue. “So you’re held personally accountable for things that happens day to day,” said another JetBlue airport operations agent involved in the organizing campaign. Ahead of the vote, JetBlue ran an anti-union website, KeepOurCulture.com, pushing for workers to favor a direct relationship with the company over a union. Recently, JetBlue employees have reported the company handing out fliers to deter workers from signing union authorization cards.

Source: The Guardian February 07, 2019 10:52 UTC