Originally Posted by
av8torguy
Would you vote for it if it were $3000, $4000 OR $10000. If it's just about the money, how will voting "No" make the company increase the amount? I'm pretty sure that the MEC or NC has no leverage to get your demands.
Unfortunately I predict that even if the amount was $1.00 the company will have no problem getting pilots to fill the FDA slots. We don't need to vote "No" on the LOA we need everyone to not bid the FDA.
Hey. If you think its a good deal. Then by all means, you have every right to vote for it. But don't fool yourself into thinking that we can pass this and then have no one bid the FDAs. Not going to happen. And, I can guarantee you that if it passes, it will not give our NC more leverage.
How many times did the company flaunt the 87% passage of the original contract in our face?
This LOA is a pitiful proposal that I will not sanction with my vote. Nor, will I bid the FDA under this LOA.
Vote for it on it's own merits. Not on possible outcomes from "sending a message" by not bidding the FDAs. That's a fantasy, anyway.
For those that fear the hiring of "foreigners" to fly our freight. Read the contract. We do have a scope section. We paid for it in the last contract.
From CBA Sec 1.B.3:
All Domestic and International revenue flights conducted with aircraft that are owned, leased, or operated by the Company, having a MTOGW of greater than 60,000 lbs., and operated pursuant to the Company’s Airline Operating Certificate or any additional Part 121 Airline Operating Certificate obtained by the Company, shall be operated by pilots on the Federal Express Master Seniority List in accordance with the terms of the Agreement.