Originally Posted by
b2pilot186
In addition to the unity on the OT/JA ban and COBRA assistance, we tried our version of 4a2b here. WE controlled the MOU however, not the company. The MOU offered the company about $135 Milion in concessions ranging from sicktime giveback to reduced schedules to voluntary leaves of absence. That amount was from a group of less than 2900 pilots. The company took the first few million prior to peak, and once they got through that they demanded even more to stop a furlough. We gave them more on a Friday, and they met us on the following Monday with a blind-side furlough and press release announcing it. They ended up saving around a little over $50 Million during the furlough...Too bad they didn't take what we offered up front.
Bottom line is that 4a2b wouldn't have saved our furloughees. This was the company's call and they bear the entire responsibility for the furlough. The IPA did everything in their power to prevent it without going down on their knees.
Well said.
It amuses me how many FDX guys break their own arms patting themselves on their own backs over a clause in their CBA that the union never thought would be necessary, and likely the company suggested for their own flexibility.
Yes...Fred has treated you far better than our bunch of boxheads and Gecko wannabees...
Yes...Fred has believed in profit growth via revenue and airplane growth...
Yes...FDX food, hotels and catering is better than UPS...
Yes...FDX make a shade more an hour than UPS, aside from the guarantee differential....
But...
FDX pilots have never actually had to "man up" when it came to a furlough (where IPA pilots stood up higher than ANY pilot group in history) or a strike (where IPA pilots stood up higher than ANY group in history).
These are no small or insignificant achievements even in the aura of Fred.
So, lets talk apples to apples if we're going to talk at all. The rest is chin music.