Considering an Atlas Career?
Educate Yourself First With Some FACTS.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Training pay $1,600/mo; FedEx pays $4,000/mo.
• Frequent initial type ride failures during initial training.
• No pay protection.
• No bid line protection.
• New hires can be junior assigned to hostile area flying.
• Wages are 40% below industry-standard pay.
• Substandard retirement benefits; 401k match is 50% of employee contribution, up to 10%.

NEGOTIATIONS

• The company is refusing to engage in negotiations for a stand-alone Atlas pilots’ contract; The company is instead insisting on merging the Atlas Pilots’ contract with an even worse contract - the Southern Air pilots’ bankruptcy-forced contract.
  
• In April 2016, in an effort to force the union back to the bargaining table, the union asked the National Mediation Board to mediate the contract negotiations; Atlas is resisting all mediation efforts and instead continues to threaten to sue the union to force it to stop all negotiations and mediation and to merge the Atlas and Southern contracts.
  
• The company is not only attempting to force a merger of the Atlas and Southern contracts, but is determined to prevent the pilots from even voting whether to accept or reject a merged contract. The company is determined to avoid a contract ratification by the pilots by getting an arbitrator to impose a merged contract on the crews, thereby depriving the pilots of our right to vote.
  
• A strike authorization passed a membership vote with 99.6% of crews ready to strike and granting the union authorization to call a strike.
• A recent survey indicates a large majority of our crews have no confidence that Atlas will deal fairly with them in a contract merger/amalgamation (47 percent "no confidence; 35 percent "low confidence").