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<blockquote data-quote="quadro" data-source="post: 607375" data-attributes="member: 12850"><p>In all likelihood, another driver or manager would just go get the CTV and take it to the station. Even at 4 hours late, sure, we've done that before. Remember 4 hours late means about 1100. If it's not going to arrive by 0830 then it doesn't really matter if it gets there at 0900 or 1100. Not as big of a wrench as it sounds. Certainly no fun but doable.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>Actually FedEx hasn't decreed that. If they are not provided in your station that's because your senior chooses not to provide them. The CSA at my station that orders supplies, orders the coffee, water, etc. If FedEx had decreed no coffee, I don't think she'd be able to order it as it has to be approved by at least the director if not the VP. Not sure what the sign off levels are these days.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>That's just it. I'm not willing to risk what I have because I don't know what I'd have to give up and there's no way that we wouldn't have to give up something. Just to clarify something, the interline benefits are just a side benefit of the negotiated business contracts between FedEx and various airlines. I don't believe that FedEx goes out and negotiates personal benefits. They need the interline agreements to move AOG parts, crews, etc. at a discounted rate. It's a reciprocal agreement. A side benefit of it is the personal discounts. There's a real possibility that they would still exist even under a union. They don't cost FedEx anything.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>I think under the new NMA for UPS you would make as much as a UPS driver, give or take. Because of the PPA (pension protection act) I honestly don't see a defined benefit plan coming back, even with a union. Just looking at the last few years before the law changed, FedEx was putting in half a billion dollars a year into the pension fund. Under the new law, the required yearly deposit could be many times that. I just don't see where those billions are going to come from. If it was millions, I would see it completely differently but we are talking billions a year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quadro, post: 607375, member: 12850"] In all likelihood, another driver or manager would just go get the CTV and take it to the station. Even at 4 hours late, sure, we've done that before. Remember 4 hours late means about 1100. If it's not going to arrive by 0830 then it doesn't really matter if it gets there at 0900 or 1100. Not as big of a wrench as it sounds. Certainly no fun but doable. Actually FedEx hasn't decreed that. If they are not provided in your station that's because your senior chooses not to provide them. The CSA at my station that orders supplies, orders the coffee, water, etc. If FedEx had decreed no coffee, I don't think she'd be able to order it as it has to be approved by at least the director if not the VP. Not sure what the sign off levels are these days. That's just it. I'm not willing to risk what I have because I don't know what I'd have to give up and there's no way that we wouldn't have to give up something. Just to clarify something, the interline benefits are just a side benefit of the negotiated business contracts between FedEx and various airlines. I don't believe that FedEx goes out and negotiates personal benefits. They need the interline agreements to move AOG parts, crews, etc. at a discounted rate. It's a reciprocal agreement. A side benefit of it is the personal discounts. There's a real possibility that they would still exist even under a union. They don't cost FedEx anything. I think under the new NMA for UPS you would make as much as a UPS driver, give or take. Because of the PPA (pension protection act) I honestly don't see a defined benefit plan coming back, even with a union. Just looking at the last few years before the law changed, FedEx was putting in half a billion dollars a year into the pension fund. Under the new law, the required yearly deposit could be many times that. I just don't see where those billions are going to come from. If it was millions, I would see it completely differently but we are talking billions a year. [/QUOTE]
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