Did Joe DePete retire? (FedEx)
 

Word from the DL MEC meeting is that Joe DePete retired from FDX on Dec 31 and deferred his pension until the end of his ALPA President term, thus eventually collecting 2 pensions... Can anyone speak to any validity of this?

I think the past two ALPA Presidents took LOAs from Delta while they were in office. How old is DePete? 61+?

Nice straw man. LOA = retirement in your world?

It means for some reason all three of the last three ALPA Presidents needed to separate themselves from their employer for some reason. All the ALPA/union haters might wait to see if there is a reasonable explanation that is most likely related to the ALPA pension plan infall three cases.

Fire - ready - aim.

I sat with Joe DePete and his wife at the BOD for 20 minutes. He gave me and countless others his word, if elected he would not retire from FedEx.

He played every ALPA Pilot like a fool and is now double dipping. In my opinion, the only reason he ran.

The ultimate greedy politician.

He needs to resign or be recalled.

I am curious. Why did the subject even come up?

The better question is why are the rules written so that you get two pensions if you do what he supposedly did.

If I retired from the Navy at 15 years and left for Delta, I'm not getting my Navy retirement. I know he's probably vested in FedEx at this point, but I'm not getting why there are two pensions.

Is Lee Moak back at Delta flying the line?

-UA

Because despite what ALPA wants you to believe it isn’t an organization made up of top down volunteers. Anyone at the local rep level and higher, especially ALPA national, is anything but a volunteer. They are highly compensated and ALPA National leadership has availed itself to a very nice benefits package.

Just ask Lee Moak.

-UA

I find that hard to believe, I gave Joe a recurrent event not too long ago and he showed up engaged and was current in the aircraft. I have a hard time believing he would harm anyone. BTW during that time some of our elected officers were NOQ due to recency but not Joe.