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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 724695" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>Here's my bottom line. Fred S is a known quantity. Unless we have some type of leverage against him we'll be underpaid and treated like dirt forever. If we<em> do</em> go union, expect a fight...threats, lockouts, etc. But what if we don't go union, what can we expect then? IMO it will just be more of the same, with the added possibility that Ground is given a big chunk of our business so Smith can pocket even more profit by exploiting the hell out of them. So, what do we do?</p><p> </p><p>Again, IMO, we have to go union and fight the fight. Smith may not be willing to endanger the Express business with labor disruptions, so he might put a better offer on the table in the hope that we choose not to certify. But consider who and what Smith is...he cannot be trusted under any circumstances. That's why we need a <strong>contract, </strong>and not some phony deal that Smith can renege-on or renegotiate at his whim. The pilots learned this lesson the hard way with their original in-house union, which quickly went away and was replaced by ALPA when Fred kept up his games.</p><p></p><p>FedEx <em>can</em> afford to pay much higher wages. Did you know, for example, that FedEx has options on 190 more 757's that will be converted from PAX to Cargo for millions per plane? There's more technology in the pipeline too. Fred always has money to "build for the future" or invest in some high-tech solution that makes us more productive or cuts staff jobs, but can never seem to find any funds to invest in frontline employees. This cycle will be perpetual unless we put a stop to it now. Hell, he's probably already plotting to replace most of us with Ground people. What do we really have to lose? NOTHING. Fred is way overdue for having a kink put in his pipe and we need to realize it and do something besides talk about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 724695, member: 12508"] Here's my bottom line. Fred S is a known quantity. Unless we have some type of leverage against him we'll be underpaid and treated like dirt forever. If we[I] do[/I] go union, expect a fight...threats, lockouts, etc. But what if we don't go union, what can we expect then? IMO it will just be more of the same, with the added possibility that Ground is given a big chunk of our business so Smith can pocket even more profit by exploiting the hell out of them. So, what do we do? Again, IMO, we have to go union and fight the fight. Smith may not be willing to endanger the Express business with labor disruptions, so he might put a better offer on the table in the hope that we choose not to certify. But consider who and what Smith is...he cannot be trusted under any circumstances. That's why we need a [B]contract, [/B]and not some phony deal that Smith can renege-on or renegotiate at his whim. The pilots learned this lesson the hard way with their original in-house union, which quickly went away and was replaced by ALPA when Fred kept up his games. FedEx [I]can[/I] afford to pay much higher wages. Did you know, for example, that FedEx has options on 190 more 757's that will be converted from PAX to Cargo for millions per plane? There's more technology in the pipeline too. Fred always has money to "build for the future" or invest in some high-tech solution that makes us more productive or cuts staff jobs, but can never seem to find any funds to invest in frontline employees. This cycle will be perpetual unless we put a stop to it now. Hell, he's probably already plotting to replace most of us with Ground people. What do we really have to lose? NOTHING. Fred is way overdue for having a kink put in his pipe and we need to realize it and do something besides talk about it. [/QUOTE]
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