April 15th, 2025

WHAT IS JETBLUE MANAGEMENT SO AFRAID OF?

Over the next few weeks and months, IAM UNION airline workers have committed to fan out across the United States and Puerto Rico to talk with JetBlue GO Crewmembers about unionizing.

A couple of the methods that will be used to connect with GO CMs will be phone calls and, in some locations, home visits. JetBlue management will claim Union representatives are harassing and invading our privacy to get us to join the Union for the Union’s own self-serving reasons.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Airline workers who are IAM members only seek to help us and give us information. JetBlue management will not allow IAM members to visit with us in the workplace because they DO NOT want us to hear anything other than what management wants us to hear. They don’t want us to unionize and will do everything they can to prevent us from hearing the good things that union representation can bring. They call the police on IAM member organizers when they are at the airport to intimidate them and keep us from engaging with them.

At the airport, Jetblue management can control the situation and that’s how they want it. Conversations over the phone and face to face, away from the airport, are situations that JetBlue management cannot control. When JetBlue management cannot control the situation, that’s when they get nervous.

THEY GET NERVOUS BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT US TO HEAR ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF A UNION CONTRACT FROM OUR FELLOW AIRLINE WORKERS THEMSELVES!

Ask yourself these two questions: Do you really believe that JetBlue management doesn’t want us to unionize because we will be worse off with a union contract? Or, do you think they are against us unionizing because they will lose the total control over us they enjoy now and that JetBlue’s labor costs will rise because we will have the ability to negotiate for better pay, benefits and working conditions?

​If you think the latter, then it’s a good idea to get all the info on the Union as you can. The best way to do that is not under the watchful eye of management, but in a safe environment free from management influence and surveillance. The IAM UNION and its members are not the enemy. They are our industry colleagues who care about us. 

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