The airline is bowing to objections from thousands of flight attendants and ground workers who said that the uniforms caused skin rashes and other allergic reactions.
... [+]Delta Air Lines said Wednesday it will drop an employee uniform design it introduced two years ago and come up with a new one by 2021.
“We believe the uniform is safe, but clearly there is a group that doesn’t,” Ekrem Dimbiloglu, director of uniforms at Delta, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday. “Delta had a real problem here because thousands of flight attendants in their work force were sick because of these uniforms,” Nelson said, in an interview. “Delta has to get the uniforms removed from the workplace and needs to make whole the flight attendants and other workers who have been harmed.”
She said the organizing campaign is going well but did not say when AFA will file signatures calling for a union election. Asked whether the town hall call was a factor in the timing of Delta’s announcement, Delta spokesman Anthony Black said, “No.
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