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You're listening to fly by night. A podcast

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by Fedex Pilots for Fedex Pilots.

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Brought to you by the Fedex Master Executive

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Council of the Airline Pilots Association. And now

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here's your host Nec Communications chair, Captain Chris

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lee. My guess today is Interim P Chair,

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Captain Andrew Harmon. Thanks for coming, Andrew. Thanks

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for having, Chris. Well, let's talk a little

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bit about what P p is.

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Yeah. P p is an Alpha committee. That's

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a standard committee of volunteers. Called upon to

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expand and enhance the Alpha and Me communications

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to all Fedex pilots and provide that feedback

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from the membership to our local association and

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Me reps.

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And why is that especially important right now?

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So right now, in our negotiation climate and

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moving forward? The P is an essential function

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of any union and that gets up of

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the crew and conversely gets the pilot's feedback

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directly to the Me. And what we've learned

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is face to face is a critical component

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with pilots.

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Yeah. That helps build that trust that core

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rapport, and they see the other line pilots.

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That's what we all are at the end

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of the day. We're all line pilots trying

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to do the best thing. Essentially, the P

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is to help close that communication loop from

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the pilots to the Me reps. A lot

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of guys are hesitant to maybe email their

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rep or submit a dart, and so this

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puts the pilot right back into the face

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of the other pilots to help answer those

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questions, alleviate concerns to spell rumors and continue

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to provide that feedback to the Me so

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that they have a pulse on the pilot

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group itself.

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We'll talk about your connection to the negotiating

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committee.

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So my connection to the negotiating committee is

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through the Ns. It's a negotiating support team.

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That consists of 4 committees, calm, Sps c,

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family awareness, and then P to.

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We have a coordinator for the Ns, the

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negotiating support team. And his function is to

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coordinate the efforts of these 4 committees. He

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helps provide the direction of the 4 committees

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to help us not duplicate any the efforts

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to coordinate our efforts moving forward and allows

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us to support the negotiating committee.

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Well, let's talk about the specific goals of

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p.

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Yeah. Some of the specific goals that we

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have for our P to enhance factual information

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between the Me and the crew force. We

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wanna reaffirm the trust of the crew members

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through constructive, interactive, collaborative engagement with all of

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our pilots

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and a elected labor union which is Alpha.

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And P is an alpha program. So can

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you talk about how it works at some

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of the other airlines, especially after Ta that

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were reject did... Yeah. So, I've been working

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directly with United and their P program, and

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getting a lots of good feedback from them

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on how they develop theirs. The utilization for

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their team members and how they were able

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to reach out to their pilot group and

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provide them that feedback loop that was absolutely

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necessary on their Ratified Ta.

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Well, I just watched you get off of

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a call with the potential volunteer. Can you

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talk about your recruitment process and how that's

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going? Yeah. So... We're looking for basically an

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army of volunteers. We need people that can

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relate,

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provide the accurate information to the crew force.

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We're be as impartial as possible in an

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emotionally charged environment,

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and we need that direct line of communication

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from those pilots.

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And for a bunch of type a

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personalities in pilots. That can be a challenge.

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Yeah. That can definitely be a challenge.

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Our committee volunteers are set up to receive

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that feedback from the type base. We want

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the active listeners,

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the people who can collaborate and receive the

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opinions of the pilots to get that real

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time pulse of of the pilot group and

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provide that feedback to the Me, so they're

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were aware of the pilot's concerns moving forward.

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And if I'm a pilot that's interested in

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getting involved in P, what kind of time

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commitment am I looking at?

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Yeah. So that's largely based on a couple

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of different factors.

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Some of that may be, if you're a

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commuter, if you're a local guy here in

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Memphis, or or in Indy or an Oakland

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1 of our bases. So the time commitment

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is ultimately up to you. But as my

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committee members will help assist, we will plug

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and place you into the rules necessary based

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on your timeline and your availability to provide

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to us.

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Talk to the pilots about who you have

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on your team right now. Yeah. So my

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team consists of myself as the interim P

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chair. That I have Dan Alt. He is

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my vice chair of

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administration and Josh Taylor, who is my vice

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chair for operations.

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Well, in closing, talk to the pilots a

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little bit about what they can expect next

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from P to p.

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Next thing's for P to p. We've been

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developing the program from the ground up. We're

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organizing. We're gonna train the committee members

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and get them back into the crew rooms

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so that the pilot get that face to

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face feedback directly from union members.

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We're excited to showcase a new effort coming

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in the very near future. So please stay

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tuned, and we'll be back with you soon.

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Thanks, Andrew.

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And thanks for listening. If you have any

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questions, please go to our website, FDX dot

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alpha dot org and utilize the dart link.

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And as always, be safe out there and

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we'll see you next time.