Originally Posted by
ClutchCargo
Tony-
We are short of crews now. Even if the T/A passes we will have 1,057 pilots turning 65 (not counting the rest of 2015) between now and 2021.
The rep that I referenced has stated that we are giving back 5, 10, 15% (which is it and of what?) if we vote this T/A in. And, as a result an X number of pilots will A- not be hired or B- forced to down bid or C- FURLOUGHED? or a combination of all three.
It's a totally ridiculous argument and it smacks of fear mongering. In fact, if a pro T/A person had made them it would be trumpeted loud and long as fear mongering.
Also, I read that statement by FDX management as saying their company wide cost saving efforts would help to defray the gains made in this T/A. But then I'm spineless, need to grow a sack and man up...
With entire re-writes of some sections and denial of access to ALPA National data, it's hard to put solid numbers on work rule changes.
If you'll recall, the biggest obstacle to furloughing during §4.A.2.b. was not that we were under or over-manned, but we were wrong-manned. The junior pilots were in the wrong seats, and the Executive Vice-President lamented that we didn't have a bump-and-flush excess system so he could man the airline "properly." Had we been manned properly, we would have seen furloughs.
That's an efficiency that The Company gains with this new convoluted system of bidding for vacancies. It will result in pilots being in the seats where The Company wants them, and when they want to implement §4.A.2.b. again, and then furlough, and then continue with the lower BLGs of §4.A.2.b., they will. (Yes, I know it's a different paragraph number in the TA, but it will forever be remembered by that awful name, and I'm hoping the TA will not become the CBA anyway.
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Anita didn't say that pilots WILL be A, B, or C -- she wondered aloud how many MIGHT be A, B, or C. Knowing that the rules are vastly different but having no experience with how they are supposed to work or how The Company will abuse them, I think that's a fair question to ask. Even the Negotiating Committee calls them Company gained efficiencies. When we are more efficient, they need fewer of us. The 3 possibilities she raises are more than reasonable.
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