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Old 11-05-2006 | 05:43 AM
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This FedEx vote was a vote to show that our union is strong as much as it was a vote for the contract. The contract is solid. Our UPS friends that like to think that we somehow forced a payrate are kidding themselves. We all know that the payrate doesn't matter, it's the workrules behind the payrate that will make the W-2 go up. The last time I checked FedEx wasn't at the table when UPS was coming up with their contract. To say that we forced a payrate on them is, well....stupid. We have an incredible vacation policy. Why didn't that section of our contract get forced on UPS? This was FedEx's first real contract. There is a large group of pilots here that wanted to send a message that this process will work in the future and that is why you saw such a large approval. That isn't to take away from the contract. I think we did very well.
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