Originally Posted by
Chuck Turpen
Each negotiating situation is different. The NC did what they could do at the time on the first FDA.
Because the company is offering improvements now doesn't mean they would have sweetened the pot if the first TA had been rejected. Maybe they would have. No hard evidene so no proof.
What is evident is that the company wants to get the new FDAs in place and they would prefer to do it with experienced pilots rather than new hires. Which they could do with no LOA.
Like I said in an earlier post, we (pilots and FedEx) are poised to be on the crest of the international economic recovery wave and out pace our competitors. FDAs part of that.
Yes SIBA deadheads are great but the yield per package is what pays our salaries.
Again, common ground. So you do understand that the FDA offers some leverage for ALPA against the company in these negotiations. It appears that most of the folks on the line, in the school house and on here feel that we should have gotten some more improvements in this TA then the company has offered in exchange for that leverage.
I agree with them, and will vote no on this TA.
We will see if those folks are actually representative of the crew force as a whole.