Originally Posted by hfbpilot

WORK RULES: Don't know what company you work for but at our airline work rules count. Before our first contract we had to stand a 24 hour reserve window, tell me how you know when to sleep and be rested for a 16 hour duty day? Now it’s a 12 hr window, so you know when to be ready to fly. This is just one of MANY rules that make doing my job better. Just because the rest of the country is buying the non union argument doesn't mean we should. I used to be anti union but pulled my head out of the sand when CEO's and upper management started killing the middle class. Also, spare me the company line they deserve it or the board would not approve it line. The Disney board can't even get rid of their CEO and compare American CEO Pay to the rest of the world. American CEO's make much more than their foreign counterparts! Why is it just the American worker that should have to compete with foreign labor not the CEO's? They is NO WAY to compete with the 3rd world labor such as China, Mexico etc. Most of the management that ran the Airline industry into the hole is still there. Now since they have raped the workers they are getting giant bonuses, explain that. Pensions are deferred compensation due the employee not something they haven’t earned as most would have you to believe. I for one will take ALPA and our contract over the old way at FedEx.