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Old 06-25-2015 | 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by YYESIAV8

I'm not saying we abdicate our rights/responsibility to review and vote, but it is a little hypocritical to say they speak for us, then complain when they try to "convince" us to support what they negotiated for us........

Am I the only one who sees the irony here/
Originally Posted by MaxKts
It's negotiations! The negotiating committee can't dictate to the company what is acceptable - they present what we are asking for. The final result is usually somewhere in between.

The company's job is to make 50% + 1 of us happy!

Our negotiating committee is there to try and keep 100% of us happy!
All of these comments reflect a rational, thoughtful view how we interact with our union and how that relationship interfaces with the company. No one truly believes Fedex will make this crew force totally happy; if they did they would, by their own (internal) omission, have failed to look out for the organizations interests and provided a windfall for one employee group at the expense of others groups, shareholders, and our customers.

So that leaves some portion of the crew force (50% -1 ) who have an axe to grind of the deferences of the TA. If your feel that way, your way more likely to use a public forum to vent your displeasure than if you at happy (or at least not so un happy as to vote no). We are seeing this in real time with the Delta pilots and their TA. Maybe they (collectively) have too big an expectation of what their NC/MEC can deliver. Maybe their MEC underestimated the wishes of their pilots. Or maybe a very vocal minority of Delta pilots, is really, really ****ed and are members of APC.

I hope for their sake they are either a very small group relative to the voting pilot group or are a very sizable majority.
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