FedEX, Pilots mediated talks proceed...

[skykid]

No doubt the mystery of the freight terminal and often night flights deter many from trying to commute on FedEx. Crashpad ought to think about the millions FedEx spends on airline tickets, including his airline, before starting rants like this. The amount of deadheading going on to start and end trips is incredible, and helps your bottom line.

 

[crashpad]

Learning is a change in behavior as a result of experience and I am enlightened. I just wish I could climb and bank the way you do on take off.

 

[stonewall]

FEDEX...WHEN IT ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY MUST BE DESTROYED OVERNIGHT.

I don't get it. What are you trying to say? That FDX pilots are destroying our airline? Weak attempt to be witty?

 

[RS6]

More mumbo jumbo from management. My MEC speaks for me.

Ok KC10, what is your MEC's #'s for average pilot pay?

 

[stonewall]

RS6, we have 4500 pilots, and the pay scales are available on line. You look at 'em and tell me how the "average pilot" makes 175K. I won't come within 80K of that this year, and neither will the overwhelming majority of the pilots. The median salary might be 175K, but without more data from the company I can't be sure. Notice that in all the articles, they just throw that out there without any supporting data.

 

[klhoard]

FEDEX...WHEN IT ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY MUST BE DESTROYED OVERNIGHT.

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Dude, just sit down, shut up, hang on, and enjoy the ride. . .
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[RS6]

RS6, we have 4500 pilots, and the pay scales are available on line. You look at 'em and tell me how the "average pilot" makes 175K. I won't come within 80K of that this year, and neither will the overwhelming majority of the pilots. The median salary might be 175K, but without more data from the company I can't be sure. Notice that in all the articles, they just throw that out there without any supporting data.

I hear ya magnum, but the figures on the paper don't come close. You'd need to know how many pilots at what rate, etc..

But you can bet your behind that your MEC knows EXACTLY what the average salary was last year for the pilot group, as well as the median. In addition to the average and median total compensation.

That's what the braniacs in teh MEC finance office do. So if Mgt is spewing dodo, let's hear the MEC's version of the dodo ;-)

 

[Deuce130]

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/business/article/0,1426,MCA_440_4231636,00.html
FedEx and pilots go into mediation
Negotiations over health care costs and job security have not been fruitful

By Jane Roberts
Contact
November 13, 2005

FedEx Corp. and its pilots have begun their latest round of talks, this time
under the eye of the National Mediation Board, the independent federal
agency that steps in when railroad and airline negotiations are at an
impasse.

While industry watchers have no idea how long the talks will last, they say
mediation is positive because it means both sides are still talking.

"They call these people mediators; they are really magicians trained to find
holes where no one else could," said Michael Boyd, aviation consultant at
The Boyd Group.

The mediator assigned to the FedEx case is John Livingood, whose most recent
assignment has been finding common ground between UPS and its pilots. The
sides have been in mediation since summer of 2004.

FedEx expects a long session because the pilots' union has already rejected
two offers without taking them to the membership for a vote.

"The NMB process is not short," said FedEx spokeswoman Kristin Krause. "It
takes months; it can take years. We hope their experienced hand can help the
process."

At the top of the agenda are health care and job security, sticking points
for the pilots since negotiations began 20 months ago.

Because FedEx is expanding dramatically, it is leasing planes and pilots to
cover the load, and paying the union penalties for the lost work.

To date, FedEx says it owes the union $2 million -- on top of the $300,000
it has already paid -- because it began leasing planes earlier this year and
will have to continue beyond the four-month lease period allowed in the
contract.

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Just out of curiosity, what does the union do with the money Fedex pays them for leasing non-company planes? Anyone know?

 

[sandman2122]

Divide it among the membership AND (for reasons I still don't agree with) non-member free loading scabs like FoxHunter.

 

[PurpleTail]

non-member free loading scabs like FoxHunter.

FoxHunter is not a FedEx pilot, he is FedEx flamebait.