Falconjet
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Not before we bring the thousands forced to retire back to their jobs, and providing for their families.
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that pilots on furlough were allowed to participate in the ALPA survey. If you included the pilots that were forced to retire in the survey, as they should, your numbers would have been very different. Since when do furloughed pilots have more rights that forced to retire pilots?
I'll be the second to correct you. ALPA did not include furloughed OR probationary members to voice their opinion in the "survey". They did, however, allow CANADIAN pilots (who already can fly past 60) participate in the "survey". When asked directly by me and many others, why probationary and furloughed members were not included, the union reps answered that they weren't allowed to vote. Here I was thinking it was a survey, not a vote.
ALPA leadership did everything they could to slant the "survey" in the direction of changing the rule. The MAJORITY of ALPA members still overwhelmingly endorsed the current rule.
This is an incredibly important fact about the "survey" that isn't stated often enough in my opinion. With the number of new hires at FedEx alone that majority would surely have been even higher if the probationary pilots were allowed to participate.
I am a proud member of ALPA but I think that they intentionally tried to rig the "survey" and to me that was very underhanded. I wrote them several emails telling them so as well.
FJ