Originally Posted by
FoxHunter
FYI the pension plan was at Federal Express long before the pilots unionized. Almost ALL FedEx employees were covered by the same plan including pilots. The corporation changed the plan for all non pilots around 2007 but the pilots avoided it because we had a union contract. Looks to me that the union has no will to protect the pilot pension.
By your quote "Looks to me that the union has no will to protect the pilot pension"; maybe it can be construed that Management dug in their heels and the Union has gone as far as it could with the current perception of pilot resolve? The company has very good data of our resolve by the way of VBB, AVA responses, number of pilots protecting carry-over, sucking up Open Time, etc. And, our previous MEC did us a disservice by not doing any kind of campaign to build our collective resolve up including a strike vote.