A TA might as well be a CBA.

 

If you paid an agent to get you the best deal possible on a new luxury car and you saw him shopping at Mike's Used Yugos, wouldn't that raise your eyebrows?




Are you serious? You're relying on The Company to make sure we don't get a bad deal? That's the safety net that makes you comfortable?

FedEx doesn't just need pilots. FedEx needs employees at all levels. They've used incentives, and will continue to use incentives. During a recent weather event, hub employees were promised an extra hour of pay just for showing up to work on time. You know what they have NOT offered prospective employees as recruitment incentives? Our "A" Plan.

If that's what helps you sleep at night, knowing that The Company won't LET The Association screw it up so badly that pilots won't come here, then I'd say you have your sights aimed pretty doggone low. Pathetic, really.








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Again, pathetic. Why do you think so little of us? As long as it's not terrible? Or, like my block rep said, "better than what [we] have now." That's the goal? Here, throw in a nickel -- that makes it better, right?



I had a choice whether to join the union or not. Twice, actually, once for FPA, and one for ALPA. I joined because there was only one party in the process that was supposed to be advocating on my behalf, and that party was NOT FedEx Express. And here's the deal. I did NOT sign up for MEDIOCRITY. I signed up for EXCELLENCE.

Our collective bargaining agent should be advocating for every penny we're worth, and not a penny less. Nowhere does it say we have to settle for less than the best just because we are in a union. But I can guarantee that without a union, and without an effective agent working for a unified membership, there's no way we'll ever achieve the best. Right now the problem is the collective bargaining agent isn't listening to the membership, it is not negotiating in the best interest of the membership, and it has failed to inspire unity among the membership. That has to change.


Nobody wants scorched earth. We just want ... well, let me speak for myself ... I just want representatives who listen to their constituents and act on behalf of them, not in spite of them.



Believe it. I think you're delusional if you don't think FedEx will destroy our retirement. In fact, the advocates of the variable benefit plans use that as a premise for their advocacy -- "We have to abandon the "A" Plan because The Company wants to get rid of it, they'll never improve it." They've repeated that line so many times that many people have begun to believe it. Unfortunately, repeating a lie does not make it the truth, even if you repeat it a lot.

The Company would love to freeze the "A" Plan and just beef up the "B" Plan, and that would be bad for us. Without our Collective Bargaining Agent fighting to improve our "A" Plan, it can never happen. The Company is not going to offer us more than we ask for.






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It's not a novel idea (I doubt you're capable of forming such a thing, or of following a line of logic, for that matter), but it DOES wreak of Union leadership dismissing the membership's wishes while they, the "smart ones, the SMEs", do whatever they wish in spite of membership wishes. Shut up and color, we'll tell you when you get to talk.

It also seems like a great delay tactic, which The Company must love, because negotiations fatigue will undoubtedly persuade many to accept less than we deserve just to get it over with. Show me a 3% pay raise and I'll vote YES, right?

It's also an incredible waste of our dues. As fiduciaries, our representatives would be irresponsible to proceed down a path doomed to failure of a TA.


Yeah, I'd say you've missed a whole lot. The articles, messages, podcasts, videos ... the hubturn visits, the Joint Council Meetings, the small group lunches ... if you haven't gotten the message by now, you never will. No surprise.

By the way, be careful where you post from. IP addresses are logged, and you'd hate for a post to trace back to the Kirby offices.






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FDX 22 Council Meeting - Save the Date!


Date: Thursday, September 9, 2021
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Germantown Center - Great Hall
1900 South Germantown Rd
Germantown, Tennessee 38138



Details to follow...






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Will the food truck have vegan options?

 

Wow.
Threatening members now. Yea you're all for unity.

 

With your past comments, no one is worried about you being part of the united pilot group. We get it, you are ready to take whatever the company is going to offer us because the company will take care of us.

 

What threat? Are you attached to Kirby and now worried that you are doing something wrong?

 

Ok you guys win. Enjoy.