It seems like you and several others from UPS want to tell us how the company should be run. The shareholder meeting would be a better forum for that than the FedEx pilot forum. When I pointed out that we shouldn't be looking at the UPS pay rates as the high bar for negotiations, several UPS pilots tried to argue that they were industry leading and other pilot groups should only hope to match those rates. Now, if the Delta AIP makes it to a TA and gets approved, your current WB rate will be 56/hour below theirs. And just 2 years ago, those same airlines were paying pilots to stay home and taking payroll protection money. You agreed to a contract extension instead of trying to raise the bar because the teamster contract was more important to the company. Only time will tell if that was a good decision or not. Since you say that our contract has a direct effect on yours, why isn't that reciprocal. Why shouldn't we be mad at you for failing to significantly raise the bar?

Now, I am all for the exchanging of ideas, but instead of attempting to educate us on how poorly our company is run, why not identify areas of your contract that would benefit ours. Let's educate each other about the areas of our contracts that we like so that both groups can improve their contract.