Strike Vote at UPS!
#52
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Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: 757 Capt
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Good luck to the line pilots over at UPS from a regular Joe FedEx line pilot. Both our company's are huge profitable behemoths that said we couldn't compare ourselves to the airlines when they had superior contracts 15 years ago. Today they say we can't ignore the fact that we all have the same job skill set. We have helped our company's remain and grow profitability during the worst recession since the great depression. Management has been rewarded with bonus after bonus and incentive after incentive. UPS and FedEx pilots deserve contracts that represent the value we deliver everyday to our company's and I'm glad the UPS pilots have the balls to stand up and demand it. I hope the FedEx pilots can finally use our brains and realize this decade long TA offer is wholly inadequate and for once use our spines and vote this Turd down.
#54
I have also followed your guys's situation somewhat closely and am hoping you, as we, get what you have earned and deserve.
I am amazed by the unity you have there, which is a fortunate byproduct of the unfortunate management you have. I drove a UPS package car for a summer during college, and got a slight taste of what you guys deal with night in and night out. In my short time at FDX as a pilot though, and the decade I've been involved with the company, I have seen our management go in that same adversarial direction. I still in many ways bleed Purple, and I hope I always will. In a twisted way, I admire the company for being able to pull off what any other airline would love to do: sell a TA to 50% +1. It seems like it might be that close. I wish we had your resolve and unity. And I know that after a decade under this TA, if ratified, we will absolutely be closer to you guys in that sense.
Only hoping the best for you guys, our brothers and sisters from the same world, in different colors.
I am amazed by the unity you have there, which is a fortunate byproduct of the unfortunate management you have. I drove a UPS package car for a summer during college, and got a slight taste of what you guys deal with night in and night out. In my short time at FDX as a pilot though, and the decade I've been involved with the company, I have seen our management go in that same adversarial direction. I still in many ways bleed Purple, and I hope I always will. In a twisted way, I admire the company for being able to pull off what any other airline would love to do: sell a TA to 50% +1. It seems like it might be that close. I wish we had your resolve and unity. And I know that after a decade under this TA, if ratified, we will absolutely be closer to you guys in that sense.
Only hoping the best for you guys, our brothers and sisters from the same world, in different colors.
#55
You have lost it, brother. Step away from the keyboard and ask a trusted friend to help you find your way back to reality.
Our interim deal had nothing to do with UPS. Stop embarrassing yourself.
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#56
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Joined APC: Nov 2006
Position: 767 FO
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#59
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Joined APC: Mar 2014
Posts: 19
Fedex Pilots turn down TA
I am guessing that we, Fedex pilots will vote NO to the TA and be in a similar situation with the Company as the "peak" shipping season approaches. Let the stuff pile up I say! Sorry it aint getting there this year. Enough is enough!
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