Originally Posted by
Noworkallplay
Im happy with the product ALPA has provided me while at FDX. Our CBA is still industry leading in most areas. Still have an A and B plan. Bids have worked out fine.
I see a few names on APC and JF that do nothing but biatch and complain. Im curious to know what level of involvement they have in making the changes they so badly want. I constantly see our union asking for volunteers or elected positions that are open. How many of the cry babies do you think will step up? None
Of course you are happy with the product that ALPA has provided you. You're a management troll.
#1. Bids HAVE NOT worked out fine. We gave up Passover Pay, which was the single greatest giveback in C2015 financially. The new Section 24 was supposed to provide us with smaller bids and the ability to choose or know when you were going to go to training. It provided NONE of that. In fact, it's worse now. As Nightflyer said, the company now controls which classes are offered so no Slot Denial Payment for you if there are no classes offered. They continue to push out big bids. And without knowing when they will or will not offer classes, and knowing who above you or below you will be held in their seat until the company is ready to let them train, you can't plan. Not even the most senior guy can plan. The new Section 24 took away the penalty payment for abrogating seniority. Now we have people stuck in places, the 757 for example, while new hires go above them. I told the NC when they briefed this at the Hilton that this wasn't going to work as they thought and that dude looked me right into my face and told me, "You don't know what you're talking about." I was right. Again. You just had to read the TA as if you were the company. Family Guy and the rest of the NC were schooled. So freaking stupid they were.
#2. We still have one of the worst Reserve systems in the airline industry. Our PBS software for secondary lines caused us to lose over 50% of our reserve lines, resulting in much lower manning, and now line holders can't drop trips due to insufficient reserves. Another huge giveback. And yet, we have people arguing and suggesting that the new system is better. It's hosed us. Every fleet. It made changing your schedule extremely difficult. The crazy part is that we still don't know what the final software as negotiated in C2015 is as the company and union have yet to release it. THIS IS NOT INDUSTRY LEADING !!
#3. Our CBA is industry leading because of legacy bankruptcies and COVID. Had it not been for COVID FedEx's contract would have been leapfrogged by the legacies. UPS's contract is now industry leading. Even the Contract Comparison on our Union's own website shows that total compensation is higher in in many situations at the Legacies and UPS. And those charts don't even account for .... ahem .... Profit Sharing. Delta (I am not sure about UAL or AA) have already crossed back into the black so they will have PS come this February. It certainly won't be as high as in the past, but they'll get it.
#4. If anyone were to judge ALPA based on grievances, TA promises versus reality, contract violations and long term outsourcing, I don't see how they could be happy with ALPA. FedEx is outsourcing long term flying that should be flown by FedEx pilots.
Dude, you have to be extremely ignorant, or a management troll not to understand what I just wrote. TALK to the FOs who come from the Legacies. I have. I've spent a lot of long hours at night discussing our contract and what they had at others. Many of the pilots I've flown with had some type of guilt, more like "had I known XYZ I would not have come to FedEx." The only folks extremely happy with the job are the military only pilots as a crap sandwich would be good to them. Go on, ask your FOs who were at regionals or Legacies. The grass isn't greener here because of people like you.