Delta voted down their TA and fired most of their union officers. First time ever. Remember when you say our contract is better. Delta Pilots are receiving huge profit sharing checks (my understanding is that they were larger than our 3 year back pay checks). Anyone have good numbers for how much they might have received?

UPS pilots stand up for themselves and are getting ready to take a strike vote. We are watching our management team take on the adversarial management style these poor guys have had to deal with for a long time. UPS pilots are sick of it and I know we have only had it for a few years but I am sick of it already too. I refuse to accept this as the new norm. We need to protect our work rules, tighten up the language and improve our QOL.

FedEx pilots receive a near decade long contract extension with numerous concessions. Historically we have always eaten the crumbs management has given us. The union is spending our 1.9% selling this inadequate deal to us as a winner. It is going to take a grass roots movement from the crew force to defeat this "Iran Deal TA". The company and our union would have us believe "any deal is better than no deal". I believe "no deal is better than a bad deal, especially a decade long bad deal".

If we can finally find our spines and vote this down we can start working to get the deal we deserve. Those day time cubicle union officer yes voting flyers need to do the right thing and resign if we vote this down, so we can get some new representation more aligned with the crew forces interests. We don't need an expeditious TA, we need the industry leading TA that we have earned. FedEx management has gooned staffing up so bad they need us and we stand ready like always, but don't insult us with this turd of a TA.

What I want is pretty simple:

1) A real pay raise not mere cost of living
2) No work rule concessions and a few improvements. (We ain't bankrupt)
3) Protect the value of my current benefits and specifically identify the maximum cost increases we will incur during the lifetime of the agreement. (Health care)
4) Protect the value of my retirement. I am not willing to watch inflation erode the value of my A plan for another decade.