Delta Airlines Delta flight attendants have voted narrowly against unionization.

The returns that were released on Wednesday by the Association of Flight Attendants showed that only 49 per cent of flight attendants voted in favor of union. Delta Air Lines has 20,000 flight attendants, which include approximately 7,000 who came from Northwest Airlines in 2008.

The Northwest flight attendants have been in the union, although their Delta co-workers were not. The voting was to resolve ıf the union would cover all of them.