Originally Posted by
Stan446
This is laughable. I hope you don't end up at DL,UA or AA and realize they furlough or have economic swings. Did you do any research? And now, you just figure this out? So scope was your ONLY reason for coming to FedEx? I don't know how you are going to make it through a career of contract negotiations at any carrier.
Promise you I did plenty of research. I just didn’t realize our scope ONLY covers domestic provisions. Just because this place has never furloughed doesn’t mean they never will. And if mgmt starts running this the way DHL does with maximization of contractors outside the EU, that very well may be exactly what causes this place to furlough for the first time ever. Don’t be naive. We are far from invincible here. This is about far more than contract negotiations for many of us new guys.
Edit: Scope was not the reason to come to FedEx. You seem to have phrased that backwards. But without a strong section 1, and no job, or at best a career full of significant stagnation, the rest of the contract doesn’t matter. There’s a reason it’s the FIRST section.