Originally Posted by
Rock
When we voted 99% to approve a strike vote we showed unity. It pushed the company over the edge to agree to TA1.
When United pilots voted 99% to reject their TA1 they showed unity.
We voted 57/43 to reject a TA our MEC voted 13-1 to approve. That is NOT unity. Now the focus on websites like this, especially by guys like you, is to fire our MEC and NC and write new rules for our union. That is NOT unity. We’ve got guys publicly calling our elected Union representatives liars and traitors. That is NOT unity. We’ve got a significant percentage of our members claiming the “old guys” are only in it for themselves. That is NOT unity. Yet you think “for the first time we have shown real unity”. I sincerely hope you’re on the next NC. I’d even vote for you. If nothing else it would be entertaining.
Rock,
I know you are big on clarity. I am a young FedEx Pilot and should be familiar with my demographic. I do not see a “significant percentage” of pilots saying old guys are in it for themselves. Can you tell me how many of my demographic kin are into this?
Further, as a youngun, I saw 500+ senior block voters say No to this proposal. They also saw what many middle and junior voters saw: a TA that was not worthy of ratification. I see their actions in the same great light akin to when the membership said no to B plan pension schemes that would fracture the membership years ago. I appreciate their vote/actions then and now.
What I do see is a cross section of young and old No voters who are upset about this underperforming concessionary proposal. (That is okay)
Everyone is a little emotional now and it will calm down, we just buried TA1 (I believe it was the right way to go) so folks are still doing their mourning. This will come in all sorts. A lot of it is loud right now.
You are probably doing some of your mourning too. I expect some yes voters to be loud but it is all part of the process towards a TA2.0.
Let folks get it out of their system because we have a long trek ahead (not a bad thing).
You are calling for folks to keep it honest, it always start with us, with me, with you. There is is no “significant percentage”.
In closing, get your TA list ready for the surveys and save a little room for not a single pilot left behind since amenable date for retirement improvement.
We did not delay improvements by 20+ years. Our company did. We did not delay focused negotiations. We did not strong arm our employer during CoVID. We actually answered the mail in billions of profit. The time for thank you emails and tv interviews about what was accomplished are over. This goodwill must be answered in the form of proper compensation package that honors the best cargo airline pilots (company’s words) on the planet.
Peak is coming. UPS negotiations are coming. Postal contract is coming. Leverage is fluid.
Not one pilot left behind, Let’s GO!