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Originally Posted by cub pilot
Tony,
7 years ago, the admonition by the company of "with you or without you" was real. 100 million was budgeted for setting up the contingency planning for this. The company figured that at least 1000 pilots would cross the picket. Throw in every operator they could get their hands on to contract freight and this was the plan. What you presume here is that the airline would lose a tremendous base of business and would never really pull this plan off. Are you correct? We will never really know since the union backed down. If the union had carried out its threats, the surviving FedEx system was forecast by the company to be dramatically downsized from it pre-strike predecessor. Over time, it would be built back up to pre-strike level of service. The company was prepared to downsize to do this and had spent 25 million on this program when Fato said "lets talk". The resultant contract was the company’s last best offer less that 25 million
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You didn't Google "Silver Anvil" and FedEx, did you?
P - R - O - P - A - G - A - N - D - A
Fool you once, shame on them, fool you twice, shame on you.
I don't care if they budgeted a billion dollars, I don't care if they hired every available cargo airplane on the planet, I don't care if they furloughed pilots out of seniority order, I don't care what training syllabi were approved by the FSDO, I don't care how many foreign pilots were staying in the Holiday Inn Express across the street - - it was propaganda - - a bluff - - fiction - - all straight out of the pages of Union Busting 101.
Fred Smith's baby is FedEx Express. He won't destroy it for two reasons. First, because it's his baby. Second, because he has a fiduciary responsibility to the Board of Directors.
Hey, listen, I tell ya what. I know you're not a union member, so why don't you send me your name and address, and I'll send you a copy of the DVD from the last Fedex ALPA rally. There were some very informative speeches, and I think you'll be enlightened. Whadya say?
- The truth only hurts if it should -