New DW message
 

I was so completely disgusted reading this. All I kept thinking was "you did this DW." Here are the excerpts that made me want to throw up.

"The MEC is acutely aware of the impact this excess will have on some of our members and is advocating as many alternative solutions as possible to management."

yeah...well aware because you caused them. nice work.

"Our contract provides substantial flexibility for circumstances such as these while at the same time establishes that any significant sacrifice should be shared."

yeah...I'm sure the NDs will be doing a lot of sacrificing for the junior dudes.

When I finished reading it, all I could say was "Dude!":mad:

I just want him to admit that using his position as MEC chairman, he successfully argued for additional legal rights for some members beyond what anyone else with his level of influence was asking - and that those legal rights are harming the career expectations of the rest of his members. Further, they are now adding to the training costs of Fedex and thereby harming the company - which he claims to be so worried about - responsible for the paychecks of all of us.

Senior mentality...
 

I was flying yesterday with a very senior, female, calender blocker the other day, and was telling her how it was going to suck if I get excessed of the Bus, and her reply was, "yeah but this is affecting all of us, I probably won't be able to hold my PM Out and Backs anymore..." I was like are you kidding me??? I may be losing 40 bucks and hour and all you care about is your PM out and backs???? :mad::eek:

How's THAT for solidarity and feeling the pain... I heard 2 NDs at the AOC the other day with one talking about wanting to sell his house in the CONUS so he could move to his other one in the Cayman Islands, and they were mad about the price falling out - guys, these guys are not on the same planet as us junior dudes with the company - they could care less if we all got the boot.:mad:

her initials weren't mz were they?

BINGO!!!!!! We have a winner!!:)

Sharing the pain
 

Does anyone know if DW and the gang have gotten their contractually guaranteed 98Hr BLG's reduced by the same amount as us? Wouldn't that be the right thing to do?

They make me want to puke...SG

In her case, I can understand it. She has a lot of cats to feed!

She's hot!!!!

I liked this part of the message:

"The stagnation in the growth of our airline and the retraction of our market is unprecedented."

Funny, there was no mention of lack of retirements nor upgrading ND S/O's as part of the problem.