Originally Posted by
Ray Kinsella
We all lost out when your Union undercut us on pay. Your union started negotiations asking for less than what UPS had tentatively agreed to pay us in 2006. NMB turned to our negotiators when the ALPA proposal was submitted and laughed. It literally cost us $20 an hour.
NURPs are "original sin" at UPS. We can't bargain them away. It's bad and you got us on that one.
Our 757 pilots flying the same routes as yours are making substantially more. FedEx gets you on the cheap. The single pay scale, or wide body for everyone, is an area we are superior. Not having to chase the pay scale and needlessly train is under appreciated by you guys.
No good comes from bickering. I wish FDX ALPA would consider collaborating with the IPA EB but they won't. If you guys kill the TA, perhaps there will be a movement to reestablish an in house union. Way too many chiefs. The fact that after this long your MEC only supports a TA 10-4 is astonishing. It was a mistake for them to settle before us. Vote it down and let the IPA do the heavy lifting. We are used to it.
Keep believing that.
Why didn't you "man up" and vote that TA down?
We had "original sin" contact language that we negotiated out. Why haven't you with the NURPS?
Why did you let your ANC pilots get furloughed with no move back to the lower 48?
Why no TA, even though you have been without a contract longer?
Why would you ever let your company routinely d/h you on your own airplanes? (Sitting next to the pooper)
We have LOTS of problems at purple, absolutely. This TA is one of them.
But please, feel free to set the bar, not complain about it.