CB: We are in violent AGREEMENT is many of these issues, particularly the last one you brought up.

I have no problem with the company working the rules of the CBA to their advantage. We all do (or should) the same.

The union has mishandled this event tremendously, and I have serious heartburn with Dave and Wally sending out missives from their pulpit about how we should all get along while they knife the younger/junior guys in the back.

They should never have worked a backdoor deal affecting 200 guys without full membership notification and awareness. We are on the same page there.

The passover issue has been beaten to death the past couple of years though, and the consensus has been that transfers don't trigger passover pay. I obviously don't have all the info that the guys affected or the union officials have, but it has seemed pretty clear to me that the ANC-MEM guys weren't causing passover pay. Canceling training slots and such should be done uniformly, so I guess if there were discrepancies there people might get a bit hacked off. Again, the union has treated is members poorly here, more so than the company.

There is definitely an atmosphere at FedEx that the new guys should be seen and not heard, that is probably true at most carriers and I think is a definite result of the probationary year and the fact that most new guys also get stuck in the back of the Boeing where nobody can hear them anyway.

Getting that kind of treatment from the union officials is pretty pathetic and completely inappropriate. I am pretty disgusted with the local and national leadership of ALPA lately, makes me almost embarrassed to be a member.

I don't mean to cause any more hate and discontent, I hope that you all get your widebody training soon. I also hope that our union leaders and employees will take realize the thin ice they are treading on.