Delta Air Lines gives workers 5% raise, boosts starting pay

Delta Air Lines labor are getting a 5% raise crossed nan committee and minimum starting salary will beryllium raised to $19 an hr starting June 1, nan institution announced Monday.

"Delta’s starring position comes acknowledgment to a elemental conception that dates backmost astir a period – put successful our group first, and they will present awesome work and experiences for our customers," CEO Ed Bastian said successful a memo to each employees. "That’s precisely what you do, and it ever sets america apart." 

Delta CEO Ed Bastian astatine nan Hope Global Forums yearly gathering successful Atlanta, Georgia, connected Dec. 11, 2023. (Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The salary hikes announcement comes astir 2 months aft Delta labor received their yearly profit-sharing prize successful February, which amounted to 10.4% of their eligible earnings, aliases astir 1 month's salary. 

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Delta said that including nan 2024 raises, nan hose has boosted compensation for its frontline workers by 20-25% since 2022.

Delta Air Lines says its latest salary hikes magnitude to a 20-25% raise successful full compensation for frontline workers since 2022. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The Associated Press noted that nan raises besides travel arsenic Delta is fending disconnected a unionization push.

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The outlet reported that nan Association of Flight Attendants is presently trying to shape Delta's formation attendants, and hopes to person capable signatures from labor by nan extremity of nan twelvemonth to petition a national election.

According to nan AP, astir 20% of Delta's workforce is represented by a union, which is nan lowest percent retired of nan 4 largest airlines successful nan U.S. 

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Delta is nan largest hose successful nan world, and nan raises will effect much than 80,000 labor globally.