Seriously?
My Two Cents
I realize we are in contract negoiations and some members of the MEC don't want to rock the boat or create contentious environment BUT there are some SAFETY issues floating around out there that warrant our collective IMMEDIATE attention!
1) So we are no longer going to have to inspect DG?.... NO WAY!
Too many times over the years there have been items disorientated, non segregated, leaking, etc.
2) Beacuse of "Industary Standard" we are going strech our CMV Training Cycles from a 6/12 month cycle to a 9/18 month cycle for $$$ management MBO's ?
REALLY?? We don't operate like most other (Passenger) carriers that get more legs and more landings per month.Why is it our upper management picks and chooses the issues they choose to adopt from the other carriers $$$$$$? Most other carriers don't fly our demanding hub turn trip night schedule and have both a domestic and international schedules. We have a "Your good to go" mentality which states we are ALL International pilots. To strech our trainig cycles to a 9/18 month CMV schedules will further compromise and degrade our safety.
3) Now today I heard they are considering removing "STOP MARGIN" from our performance data because someone had the ramp pull freight from a flight to increase their stop margin for takeoff?
This is TOTALLY INSANE! You are going to remove one of the more significant numbers in our performance data to enhance payload?
This very dangerous trend indicating a perilous degration of safety that has to stop, and STOP NOW before someone experiences a REALLY BAD DAY so someone else can optimize their MBO $$$$$$$'s
We all need to take the personal time and write management and express our distain for ALL of these and any other issues which may have a direct impact on our safety (for dollars).
We also need to express our dissatisfaction with FedEx ALPA MEC for creating an environment where safety is being subdued for the sake of contract negations!