Another Astar interloper?

[GoABX]

Does this violate your exclusive right to DHL freight too?



Jumbo cargo jet is OK'd to fly into DHL base
By Kimberly Trone, Press-Enterprise, Thursday September 07, 2006


The March Joint Powers Commission on Wednesday endorsed an agreement that will add a Malaysia-based jumbo jet to DHL's cargo center at March Air Reserve Base. Transmile Air Services will relocate its LAX operations to the joint-use airfield near Moreno Valley. The company is a contract carrier for express-shipper DHL and has been sending about four truckloads of cargo each night to DHL's Inland hub. The commission agreed that Transmile's MD-11 could operate without additional environmental scrutiny. It found that previous studies sufficiently contemplated the effects of the 300-ton jumbo jet on air quality and traffic.
Jacques Yeager, an investor in the airport's master developer GlobalPort, said by telephone that the Transmile agreement was "a feather in our cap." Yeager said GlobalPort's emphasis is to replace jobs that were lost when the federal government made March a reserve base in 1996. DHL has generated about 250 new jobs. March Commissioner Bob Buster, a Riverside County supervisor, cast the only opposing vote. Buster has opposed the DHL project since 2004. Buster said Wednesday that a new noise study revealed up to 20 percent of his constituents could be awakened in pre-dawn hours by DHL planes. Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge, also a commissioner, said the March panel needs more information about sleep disturbances because no in-depth public discussion has occurred.

 

[AV8OR]

"Does this violate your exclusive right to DHL freight too?"

Maybe.

How bout yours for Airborne freight?

 

[GoABX]

Doubtfully..if it is out of Malaysia..we wouldn't have much of an argument b/c we haven't really done any international for DHL. You guys have. But I wasn't sure if there were any limits to new outsourcing that falls under the No Furlough umbrella.

 

[AV8OR]

Not sure. I'm sure we'll look into it. The main thing here is.....once again, DHL doeasn't really care what anybody's contract says. They are "above it all". They're DHL.

 

[erichartmann]

Not sure. I'm sure we'll look into it. The main thing here is.....once again, DHL doeasn't really care what anybody's contract says. They are "above it all". They're DHL.

You don't really get it do you? DHL/DP's position is your labor contract is between you and your management. They are not your management. They are no longer a party to your labor contract, and do not have a labor/management relationship with you. They have contracted your company and others to haul freight for them. You are no longer part of the DHL "family" despite the fact your aircraft is painted yellow and says DHL on the side, and your call sign is DHL. You are now a red headed step child. So are the rest of us.

 

[AV8OR]

"You don't really get it do you?"

More than you'll ever know dude. But you just keep telling yourself you know how it all works with DHL and contracts. When the smoke clears.. you let me know how it works out for you. You've got what, a solid 2....2 1/2 years under your belt dealing with these guys? Dude we've got guys that have been working for DHL since they were a US company, since there was a D an H and an L. But you've gottem all figured out huh, and we're the ignorant jacka$$es when it comes to the DHL rodeo. Whatever your understanding of the current situation is, understand this; they've pi$$ed on us at AStar/DHL Airways, and if they need to they'll do it to you as well. That's all I was sayin in my post. You've got some nerve dude tellin me I don't "get it".

Adios.

 

[erichartmann]

"You don't really get it do you?"

More than you'll ever know dude. But you just keep telling yourself you know how it all works with DHL and contracts. When the smoke clears.. you let me know how it works out for you. You've got what, a solid 2....2 1/2 years under your belt dealing with these guys? Dude we've got guys that have been working for DHL since they were a US company, since there was a D an H and an L. But you've gottem all figured out huh, and we're the ignorant jacka$$es when it comes to the DHL rodeo. Whatever your understanding of the current situation is, understand this; they've pi$$ed on us at AStar/DHL Airways, and if they need to they'll do it to you as well. That's all I was sayin in my post. You've got some nerve dude tellin me I don't "get it".

Adios.

I said you didn't "get it" because you seemed to expect some sort of loyalty from DHL/DP. There is, as you apparently realize, none. Nonetheless, if you expect it, you don't "get it". :bawling: They have no reason, from their POV, to owe you any loyalty. You work, you get paid. YOU may feel as though there should be something more to the relationship. They clearly don't. You and I might look to SWA and point to a different way of doing business, a different management style, My experience, over far more than the 2 1/2 years under DHL, suggests management styles are virtually impossible to change. We, the employees under contract to DHL/DP, are the hired help. We are not part of the family. We never have been, and never will be. This is very familier territory for ABX pilots. We were always the illegitimate red-headed step children at Airborne. I, personally, have no expectation that DHL/DP will do anything other than use me just so long as they feel they have a need for my services. I expect them to exploit every weakness, every loophole, to the greatest extent possible. I also expect them to violate the contract when they judge it expedient to do so. Finally, I expect them to break it completely when they judge it cheaper to do so than continue with it. So yes, I do think I have them pretty well "figured out".
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