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Message Line

January 31, 2006

This is FEDEX MEC Communications with the Message Line for January 31,
2006.

Possible Scab Recruitment: The FDX MEC has been informed from highly
credible sources at World Airways that FedEx is being solicited to
recruit retired FedEx MD-11 pilots to be scabs. We have been told that
there is coordination between World and FedEx to hire retired pilots to
move World MD-11s idled by the World pilots' strike and that FedEx
management may assist in the effort. It has been confirmed through
conversations directly with a sampling of some of our retired pilots
that FedEx is attempting to recruit pilots to move unidentified MD-11s
in Africa. It is possible that these pilots are being asked to either
reposition aircraft, or possibly fly them for revenue during the strike.
Either of these actions would involve the crossing of a picket line
established by our fellow pilots in their quest to protect their jobs
from being outsourced.

We are confident that our retired pilots will have the character
necessary to refuse this chance to assist in breaking a strike. It is
extremely tough to imagine that retirees who are being squeezed in the
health care arena the way that ours are would be willing to assist in
the subjugation of a fellow pilot group.

We are in the process of contacting management to get their response to
what part, if any, they have in this type of cooperative, concerted
coercion of labor. If you hear of anyone being recruited or actually
performing these kinds of services, please contact the MEC.




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