Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Literally nobody has said or done that.
Literally nobody has said or done that.
Describing the external factor of a likely NLRB Teamsters strike in summer 2023 that no passenger carrier or FDX had to deal with, or looking in hindsight at the very real impact that a global pandemic would have had on contract negotiations starting "on time" in September 2020, isn't "blame". We don't have to like those realities, and none of us did, but that doesn't change the fact they were realities.
FDX pilots said NO to a TA containing payrates below the industry-leading rates established THREE MONTHS BEFORE THE FDX TA WAS ANNOUNCED, whereas IPA Extension 2022 payrates were industry leading when ratified.
This differs from you, who has previously and evidently continues to blame IPA pilots and two overwhelmingly (90%+) ratified extensions for FDX's TA2023 payrates which substantially lagged Delta ALPA rates ratified three months earlier.
You don't like our extensions, okay fine, good thing you don't work under them but don't blame those rates while ignoring the substantially higher rates ratified by Delta between IPA Extension 2022 and FDX TA2023.
I feel like I speak for all IPA pilots when I say we hope you get a solid TA2 that earns an overwhelming YES vote...and I'm pretty confident that is the objective of the IPA EB/NC.
You literally have been pointing to those as reasons the extensions were good.
You continue to ignore that your pattern bargaining agreed to a rate in 2021 that was below Delta's 2019 rate.
If you think that what UPS does has no affect on Fedex, then why did so many of your pilots care what we were doing in our contract negotiations? Why even mention us in your contract convo thread?
You point to a TA (that got rejected) that was agreed to 5 months after Delta approved their contract, yet fail to point out that your ontract extension came 1+ years after Delts's January 2019 (negotiated in 2016) rate and you did not exceed it until the last part of 2022.