Originally Posted by Sideshow Bob

Luck? No luck required sonny. Not one IPA pilot crossed their legally established picket lines. UPS management went berserk, but couldn't and didn't do a thing. As mentioned before, there's an article in the UPS-IPA contract prohibiting the company from in any way sanctioning a IPA pilot for not crossing a legally (as it was in CGN) established picket line anywhere in the world. Those of us here at the time did the same thing in 1997 on behalf of the Teamsters during their strike.

I guess FDX ALPA doesn't have a similar clause in their CBA, because a FDX 777 operated CGN-MEM during the CGN strike. Given their contract is settled, and assuming they don't have the same contractual protections, I see a difference, albeit disappointing.