Upcoming Resolution
For those of you not in LEC 7, we just received an LEC7 update. At an upcoming Council 7, 22 and 26 meeting, one of our outstanding union members intends to submit a resolution regarding disputed pairings. In case you haven't seen it, I'll copy it here:
Whereas, the FedEx pilots have been very clear over the years in stating
that quality of working life issues such as pairing and line
construction are among their top priorities and,
Whereas, the pilot volunteers on the scheduling, SIG and PSIT committees
expend enormous amounts of time and energy as well as a considerable
amount of our union resources working to ensure Company compliance with
both the letter and spirit of the contract in pairing and line
construction and,
Whereas, there is a procedure in our contract that allows our union to
"dispute" pairings which the SIG believes do not live up to contract
standards and,
Whereas, our union has repeatedly requested our pilots to comply with
our long standing union policy of not voluntarily flying any disputed
pairings but rather to leave them in open time to either be assigned to
reserves or flown by management pilots and,
Whereas, to date, nearly one year into our second union contract, our
union has apparently failed to communicate this policy adequately as
evidenced by the fact that a significant number of our pilots continue
to request disputed pairings for their VTO lines, to trip trade into
disputed pairings and to pick up disputed pairings for makeup and,
Whereas, it is desirous that we open a new channel of communication that
would allow pilots who have not been made aware of this policy to
understand the negative impact of continuing to voluntarily fly disputed
pairings on our hard working scheduling volunteers' efforts,
Therefore, be it resolved that beginning with the end of the next bid
month after the passage of this resolution is published in the MEC
minutes, that a list of all disputed pairings will be published along
with the names of all non reserve pilots who voluntarily fly any
disputed pairings in order to facilitate an education process whereby
they can be informed about this union policy and the importance of
adhering to same.
Respectfully submitted by .....
If you can't make the meeting, may I suggest you contact your reps to support this. I plan to.