If you folks at FedEx have not yet voted to go ALPA you better think long and hard about it!
As a “permanently furloughed” pilot from Emery, I would strongly recommend you take a look at <a href="http://www.boxhauler.com" target="_blank">www.boxhauler.com</a> there are numerous articles from newspapers like the Wall Street journal, USA Today and others about the issues with CNF (EWA parent co.) and the pilot group. Also a message board <a href="http://pub19.ezboard.com/fboxhaulersplacefrm1" target="_blank">http://pub19.ezboard.com/fboxhaulersplacefrm1</a> . After you look at that ask your representatives to ask ALPA and Duane Woerth specifically about the situation with the EWA pilots. Do it face to face and look into his eyes. Do they think he is telling the whole truth? Ask why the MEC, after being voted in for the second consecutive term, were dismissed, placed in to custodianship and placed a crewmember (who ran twice and lost twice for MEC chairman by a huge margin both times.) from Emery as custodian? Why did ALPA national (Capt. Woerth) choose him over the duly elected representatives? There were a lot of things forced on us by ALPA during negotiations and after the shut down. After all we were only 500 pilots flying cargo.
I strongly urge the pilots of FedEx to think with your brain not with your wallet! Listen to the pilots from Eastern, the first Continental, Pan Am and TWA. Ask questions, look at the past and listen to your heart. When things get tough who are you going to trust with your careers, your safety and your family? A union is only as strong as the membership and when it’s time to fight it’s easier to have those you trust completely behind you.
Good luck and best regards