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Since alpa evidently has not learned a damn thing from the last class action lawsuit, I hope they are ready for another one.
First off, "ALPA" is your fellow pilots, its you and me and 4700 other FedEx pilots. But I agree that there was a lesson in that lawsuit. Our idiotic pilots will sue there own Union for any reason. So sure, let's try this one on for no good reason. I'm sure you can engage the services of the law firm that assisted on the last one. They seem eager to empty pilots of their bank account.
Start off the conversation like this: "Mr. Attorney, I was ****ed off about our last contract and thought we should have made improvements to MY Retirement!. Now those ba*@#$ds are trying to fix it...they are actually doing it!! They actually want to start a new DB plan that fixes that old one that I thought we should improve. I'm going to get a lot of my pilot buddies to help me give you some more money so you can take this to court. Are you in?"
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"I already got my 25" Alpa MEC clowns get their way and manage to give a way our A-fund outside of section 6 negotiations.
Ok, of the 14 Block reps on the MEC, I believe 3 have 25 years, the other 11 don't. The NC has three guys, two don't have 25, well below that. On the R&I committee of the 4 guys, none had close to 25.
These are the folks that authorized this work and the SME's that have done the work. This statement has no reference for fact. Nothing communicated at this point would cause me to believe this. In fact the communication addresses the specific fact that this plan addresses new-higher replacement ratios in particular. Seems they are going to have much less compared to the 25 Year guys going out now. Looks they want to fix that. Guess you may actually need to read/listen to what is being communicated.
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There is so much we gave up in the last contract
Yes there were some horse trades, but this was a 1.5Billion- Yes with a "B" contract. Not saying there weren't any gives, but at the end of the day this was the most valuable contract that has ever been negotiated on this property. Don't let the facts stand in the way of a good argument though. But more to the point, this is possibly the exact reason they are doing this now rather than wait until 2021, when the Company will be coming after more "perks".
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This is beyond stupidity!!!
I couldn't agree more! How anyone could pass a judgement on this before you hear all the details is beyond "stupidity" and beyond stupid, for that matter!
But hey, maybe we should accept the contract you clearly don't like, maybe they will allow you to cut yourself out of the deal, assuming at some point there is.
How about we let them do their job and see what they bring to the table. Imagine actually letting that process work, or is it something you would rather just kill out of your biased opinion before it has time to develop?
Lets not be our own worst enemies AGAIN!!