You're listening to fly by night. A podcast
by Fedex Pilots for Fedex Pilots.
Brought to you by the Fedex Master Executive
Council of the Airline Pilots Association. And now
here's your host Nec Communications chair, Captain Chris
lee. My guess today is Interim P Chair,
Captain Andrew Harmon. Thanks for coming, Andrew. Thanks
for having, Chris. Well, let's talk a little
bit about what P p is.
Yeah. P p is an Alpha committee. That's
a standard committee of volunteers. Called upon to
expand and enhance the Alpha and Me communications
to all Fedex pilots and provide that feedback
from the membership to our local association and
Me reps.
And why is that especially important right now?
So right now, in our negotiation climate and
moving forward? The P is an essential function
of any union and that gets up of
the crew and conversely gets the pilot's feedback
directly to the Me. And what we've learned
is face to face is a critical component
with pilots.
Yeah. That helps build that trust that core
rapport, and they see the other line pilots.
That's what we all are at the end
of the day. We're all line pilots trying
to do the best thing. Essentially, the P
is to help close that communication loop from
the pilots to the Me reps. A lot
of guys are hesitant to maybe email their
rep or submit a dart, and so this
puts the pilot right back into the face
of the other pilots to help answer those
questions, alleviate concerns to spell rumors and continue
to provide that feedback to the Me so
that they have a pulse on the pilot
group itself.
We'll talk about your connection to the negotiating
committee.
So my connection to the negotiating committee is
through the Ns. It's a negotiating support team.
That consists of 4 committees, calm, Sps c,
family awareness, and then P to.
We have a coordinator for the Ns, the
negotiating support team. And his function is to
coordinate the efforts of these 4 committees. He
helps provide the direction of the 4 committees
to help us not duplicate any the efforts
to coordinate our efforts moving forward and allows
us to support the negotiating committee.
Well, let's talk about the specific goals of
p.
Yeah. Some of the specific goals that we
have for our P to enhance factual information
between the Me and the crew force. We
wanna reaffirm the trust of the crew members
through constructive, interactive, collaborative engagement with all of
our pilots
and a elected labor union which is Alpha.
And P is an alpha program. So can
you talk about how it works at some
of the other airlines, especially after Ta that
were reject did... Yeah. So, I've been working
directly with United and their P program, and
getting a lots of good feedback from them
on how they develop theirs. The utilization for
their team members and how they were able
to reach out to their pilot group and
provide them that feedback loop that was absolutely
necessary on their Ratified Ta.
Well, I just watched you get off of
a call with the potential volunteer. Can you
talk about your recruitment process and how that's
going? Yeah. So... We're looking for basically an
army of volunteers. We need people that can
relate,
provide the accurate information to the crew force.
We're be as impartial as possible in an
emotionally charged environment,
and we need that direct line of communication
from those pilots.
And for a bunch of type a
personalities in pilots. That can be a challenge.
Yeah. That can definitely be a challenge.
Our committee volunteers are set up to receive
that feedback from the type base. We want
the active listeners,
the people who can collaborate and receive the
opinions of the pilots to get that real
time pulse of of the pilot group and
provide that feedback to the Me, so they're
were aware of the pilot's concerns moving forward.
And if I'm a pilot that's interested in
getting involved in P, what kind of time
commitment am I looking at?
Yeah. So that's largely based on a couple
of different factors.
Some of that may be, if you're a
commuter, if you're a local guy here in
Memphis, or or in Indy or an Oakland
1 of our bases. So the time commitment
is ultimately up to you. But as my
committee members will help assist, we will plug
and place you into the rules necessary based
on your timeline and your availability to provide
to us.
Talk to the pilots about who you have
on your team right now. Yeah. So my
team consists of myself as the interim P
chair. That I have Dan Alt. He is
my vice chair of
administration and Josh Taylor, who is my vice
chair for operations.
Well, in closing, talk to the pilots a
little bit about what they can expect next
from P to p.
Next thing's for P to p. We've been
developing the program from the ground up. We're
organizing. We're gonna train the committee members
and get them back into the crew rooms
so that the pilot get that face to
face feedback directly from union members.
We're excited to showcase a new effort coming
in the very near future. So please stay
tuned, and we'll be back with you soon.
Thanks, Andrew.
And thanks for listening. If you have any
questions, please go to our website, FDX dot
alpha dot org and utilize the dart link.
And as always, be safe out there and
we'll see you next time.