Originally Posted by
Stan446
It baffles me that you have no clue how hard FX pilots fought for every contract. The last contract had FX pilots at the top of the pay scale. But maybe, you, and everyone else who flew extra during covid and negotiations had no clue how that would affect a TA. Guys sold their soul and now ***** about a TA.
Posts that continue to divide and conquer. It's all about putting one group against the other group. And blaming "those guys." It's time the blame gets put exactly where it belongs: FedEx management. Once everyone starts focusing on that, we'll get an agreement. Right now, management (wrongly, I hope) thinks they'll be able to fracture the group enough to limp a substandard agreement with zero dollars added from TA1 across the finish line. Perhaps they are encouraged by the readily available ability to sow discord among the crew force with leaked "bad news" from the NMB, or evidence of "company good faith bargaining" in a PFC letter asking for "reasonableness." Perhaps they'll even float the ridiculous idea of recalling MEC members in the middle of this fight to the same willing dividers that spread the preliminary bad news.
If you're senior: you should be angry that despite your seniority to bid lines that you are entitled to hold, the COMPANY is freely extending you and arguably PLANNING to extend you more than three days. You should be angry that the COMPANY is withholding an agreement with an improvement to retirement that is ratifiable by a majority because they want to punish the group for refusing TA1.
If you're junior: you should be angry that the COMPANY refuses to acknowledge that they are outsourcing our jobs and wants an unfettered ability to do so in the future. You should be angry that improvements to work rules that might give you some semblance of control on your schedules are being met with obstinate refusal by the COMPANY to deal. You should be angry that after 4 years here, your pay isn't a whole lot better than it was after leaving that last job.
If you're flying a trip and maybe you really don't like the other pilot you're flying with...you keep flying, you follow the procedures, you do a great job anyway. You just need to get safely to the end of the trip. We do this ALL THE TIME. JUST GET TO THE END OF THE TRIP. You don't need to hang out with the guy you don't like once the trip is over. Get through the trip.
It's my hope that, rather than begging for some concessionary agreement that the MEC and NC will keep their spines steeled, and that the entire herd of cats that we are will unify behind the effort. The company WILL need an agreement. Financing new airplanes with labor unrest--not good. Enticing major customers with labor unrest...not good. Hiring pilots (and they WILL need to do that) as a company who has dragged their feet for four years and then offers a 40%-below-the-industry pay scale...good luck.