So, is he vulnerable for termination?

 

If he was the NC, I guess he is just following in the steps of PC. Unbelievable would be an understatement IMO. Where do we get these guys anyway? (rhetorical Q)

 

What makes you guys think he is not paying his fair share? He is subject to the agency shop provision of our contract. Did someone in the know, say that he's not paying his maintenance fee?

Having said that...He should definitely not be wearing anything that identifies him as a member of our union.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We’ve passed the window of opportunity to have a CBA (or even a T/A) by Christmas. Our MEC, and we as FedEx ALPA have squandered away another opportunity to do meaningful and productive work for ourselves. Management has to be laughing their asses off.

Our MEC is having their joint council meeting on AUG 13th. If on that day they decide our negotiations are moving at an unacceptable pace, should they decide to take a strike vote? (They decide – we vote). That bit of voting takes … 30 days. That puts us into the middle of September. When the vote passes by 50% +1 (or 99%), should our MEC go to the NMB and ask for non-binding arbitration, and then to be released to self-help? The Company has to agree too, but why should they? They’re pleased with the progress moving forward at a snails pace. If the non-binding arbitration fails then we can ask the NMB to be released to self-help. After 40 months, does anybody believe we should be close to an agreement? After 40 months of negotiating, are we even close enough to ask the NMB for non-binding arbitration?

We’re going to have informational picketing in late September, but does anybody believe that’ll have an impact on negotiations or an impact on peak? Why weren’t we picketing in … June or July?

Folks – as I see it, the MEC hasn’t kept their eye on the ball. [We] have squandered a golden opportunity to avoid wasting our money another year. We took the second 3% pay raise to allow the Company to expedite an EU domicile, and because we weren’t ready with openers for a full Section 6 bargaining. Was there ever an established time-line with identified goals and options if negotiations started slipping?

If you’re not absolutely angered at the pace things are going, I’m not sure what it would take. Perhaps hearing rumors of concessions with our retirement will get your attention. If the Company wants to see 1,000 crew members bail on short notice, give us a T/A with retirement concessions (including but not limited to pay, health care and retirement age).

Very Respectfully,
Nakazawa

 

Uhhhh...I believe that going through the NMB mediation process prior to proffering arbitration is customary.

But, your point is quite valid!

 

....and yet the disputed pairings continue to be flown?
We truly are our own worst enemy!
Yes, I am sure Management is very pleased with their strategy!

 

I believe that the contract talks will accelerate when crew skeds starts melting down with not being able to fill flights on a nightly basis. Take a look at open time for the maddog,,incredible,,looks like before open time release instead of one week into the bid month. You guys will get us a contract,,,

 

Well,

I sometimes wonder why a post is worded the way it's worded. If it's truly heartfelt, or a mgt stooge sowing dissension.

From previous posts, I think naka's rationale is heartfelt. But, it is still misguided. Picketing or not, we'll have a contract when mgt is ready for us to have a contract. If we absolutely wanted a contract right now, I'm confident that if we acquiesced to mgt's proposals-we'd have a contract. I don't think we're asking for the moon, so IMO the holdup is mgt's unreasonable proposals-some disrespect to PCs opinion intended.

When our contract expired 10 years ago, we did walk the picket line in June---but, still didn't have a contract by peak.

UPS's contract expired years ago, and they have been in mediation for quite some time.

Downside to RLA is that labor doesn't have nearly as much power, upside for the country is the freight keeps moving.

As for me, I'll just keep enjoying my satisfying FedEx life. Enjoying my vacation days. Wondering how the freight's going to keep moving as we meander towards peak, and adverse weather, with apparently enough people satisfied with their satisfying FedEx life that it's frustrating PC and he's putting pressure on the Union. Get the impression somehow that PC wants the Union to force people to fly voluntary overtime.

As for me, I know if BLG meanders up, I'm not going to be near any of the FAR flying limits. Kinda wonder how good the company's computer is at tracking the various limits under Flag ops. Do know they used to not be so good at the whole 8 in 24. Pretty sure if someone overflys, FedEx will self-report them for certificate action, just as they did in the past

 

We lack leadership that matches toe-to-toe with management's leadership. The MEC and rank & file pilots were OK with another 3% contract because they felt management would change their stripes and treat this round of negotiations differently than they ever have before. Really? It's this kind of behavior that allows management to retrain the upper hand even when our union leaders have management's playbook.

 

I appreciate the sentiment. That said, which pilots created the circumstance whereby the manning has gotten tight over the last few months? Of course, the answer is that no line pilot had anything to do with it. The situation was created by management pulling some MD10s from service and placing pilots into schools for replacement airplanes (and the B777). Management didn't do this in a fog. The school will soon be spitting pilots out of the pipeline and back into line flying. We didn't create the start of this manning issue and we won't have any control when it subsides before peak.

Line pilots naturally want a no-risk resolution (like temporary manning issues). Especially those that fall into their lap. It's gonna take some risk and sacrifice to get the contract you want.