Originally Posted by
EMBFlyer
Did I say anything like that? No.
What I said was the request for release was advised against by ALPA National and many, many attorneys, yet The 8 (now 5) proceeded anyway and that sidelined us 14 of the 18 months since the new MEC and NC took over. Those are facts and they are undisputed.
So, what?
If the company is demonstrably unwilling to bargain, what is option B? Even Fred, in his last days, described the contract as "below his pay grade?"
I mean, I get you saying that this was the union's fault, but I just don't see it. The error was in an egregious lack of pattern bargaining, which included asking a pilot group to accept wet leases and furloughs, at the same time. And 13 of 14 then MEC members rogered up on it.
The release DID NOT suddenly render the company unwilling to bargain. The company knew it would have come with money it did not want to spend, because both they and the union missed the advent of the internet, where contracts like the APA and Fedex could be compared and contrasted.
Well, you all own the coup, now. Lots of reporting that at least one proxy was likely voted against the representative, and certainly the timing of the press release makes this appear to highly premediated.
At the end, cui bono? Certainly not pilots on the Fedex Master Seniority List, who just got handed a "Go to Jail. Go directly to Jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200" card as we sit and some portion of us eagerly awaits the contractual equivalent of Santa.