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active_herk said:Member dues are ALPA standard, 1.95% of pay
Geronimo4497 said:Interesting topic. Just out of curiousity, how much are member dues? I can't imagine that it is a ton of money, considering what you guys make.
P.S. - Can I have a job?
Geronimo4497 said:1.95% = Cheap Insurance. Is it tax deductable (I would imagine that it is).
active_herk said:. I guess the non-union types figure management would have given us the 6% B-fund out of the goodness of their hearts (in the meantime management took away profit sharing from the rest of the employees and then offered up a dividend to the shareholders). Gee, I wonder who the number one shareholder is??
FedEx said:If they are not members then they are told good luck and come back and talk to us when you join the membership. They said why should they help out a nonmember with all the others members paying dues? If they helped out the non-members, then there would be no incentive to join the Union.
I feel ALPA should do the same. Why should my dues help protect another pilot who is not paying dues?
Let this happen to one pilot and see how fast they join the Union...
Rez O. No desrespect to you, but what if the Union would have told you, good luck on getting your job back, come talk to us later when you become a member. I am tired of my hard earned $ helping out someone who choose not to belong to the Ass... Lets do what the NEA does and tell the pilot "good luck, let us know how everything works out".
BoeingBoy said:Easy solution to the non-member financial problem...'contract administration fee' which equals 1.95% of pay...eliminates the financial incentive for being a non-member...you don't have to join, but you have to pay if you wanna keep the job. APA got this feature added to the contract with AA after the acquisition of TWA when they were worried about having too many non-members. Eagle has had it for years. Works good, and if people refuse to pay, the company is required to release them.
6Pak said:And some of you doubt is this guy deserves the label of SCAB?!?!.. Take an old man whose been around the block, supported unions in the past, watched the slow erosion of lifestyle/compensation at FedEx, and then benefitted directly from a contract. Instead of quietly laying around soaking up the free ride, this scumbag, easily identifiable by name, finds a public forum and flames the men and the process under whose umbrella he is shielded from the sh1tstorm of current labor turmoil in aviation. Gentlemen, if you don't think he is a scab, or if you think there is degree of difference between those who ACTIVELY undermine our legal right to negotiate an expired contract and those who have crossed a picket line, then it is time to step back and take another look at the big picture. A SCAB is a SCAB.
FoxHunter said:Yes, I could sit back soaking up a free ride. I have chosen not to because I care about what happens at FedEx, and to the crew force here.
Some of you say that I have no say. I beg to disagree. As a nonmember I have every right to comment on what is going on at FedEx. As members you do not, unless it is in lock step with the direction of your leadership. At Tigers when we had the MEC making a fiasco with the dealing with Wolf there was a small group trying to change direction. One of the individuals was brought up on formal ALPA charges. He in the end was found not guilty. At that time I was in lock step with the MEC. As time went on I realized how foolish that was. Funny thing is that two of the Tiger ALPA leaders at that time were both on the nonmember list at FPA and then ALPA until the retired. One had actually served as an ALPA Executive VP. I guess they knew how to take a free ride.
You all appear very sensitive to any position counter to the line you have been fed by your leadership. I'm one individual taking a position. If I am wrong, time will prove it. If your leadership is correct I would be happy to pay my back dues and join.
mongopilot said:George, one of those guys you mentioned said that he would join ALPA if we ever got ALPA back on the property. As you said, he didn't. It turns out he was just a cheap ass pilot. I think you will be proven wrong this time, so you better start saving your money to pay your back dues.
sandman2122 said:I'm sure you do after all of those years of freeloading!