Remember, we have already taken a hit. Long before Fred announced his 20% pay cut, and a 7.5-10% pay cut for other senior FedEx executives. Just looking at my 2007 net pay vs. my 2008 net, I have lost 10.7% of my spendable income. That's even after 2 raises in 2008. We have already taken a pay cut on par with the senior executives. Which, when you think about it, it ludicrous, since we are really labor with "no special skills." It's funny how, when it came to the HK LOA, we were just blue collar workers, not worthy of any 'perks' afforded to more highly skilled members of the FedEx 'team,' but now when it comes to paycuts, we must now shoulder a burden 3 times as much as a senior executive.

It's also quite interesting, looking at other airlines on the passenger side, how they view 'normal' levels of pilot BLG. Recently, at United, and previously at Delta, those respective companies took the pilot force to court for illegal 'job actions' and won based on the fact that pilots were not picking up overtime. The company showed how many hours pilots normally flew, and when there was a drastic drop off, they deemed it an illegal job action. But yet, in 2007, when our average BLG was about 75/92, and now the company has cut it to 68/85 in 2008 and much lower in 2009, where is our legal leg to stand on? But rest assured, if this pilot group ever got some unity and refused to pick up over time, volunteer, or draft, and just flew our line, I'm sure Fred would have his lawyers in court asking for an injunction against our 'job action.'

I'm fed up and I'm asking ALPA to defend our contract to the end.