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.
Back with me today is Interim P Chair,
Captain Andrew Harmon. Thanks for coming back, Andrew.
Thanks for having me, Chris.
On your last podcast, we talked about P
to,
and just recently, Me Chair Captain Jose N
put out his 1000 day message.
In that message, he energized your team. Can
you talk about P role in this process?
Yeah. The Me is calling on our team,
the P volunteers to rally the crew force
around a new message. 1 alpha, I'm all
in. The message is a call for solidarity
and our crew force to recognize a search
we currently face and generate support for our
Me in a transformation to pace the corporation
and our negotiating committee as they approach the
next phase of negotiations.
And as we talked about in your last
podcast, the face to face component and P
involvement in this campaign
is critical.
Yeah. The face to face element is what's
gonna provide the trust and the feedback that
P committee is required to provide. That's our
essential function. Is to get the pilot's feedback
to the Me directly. Well, let's talk a
little bit about what we're all in on.
3 things. First, we're all in on Alpha
as our labor union.
Next, we're all in on our Me transforming
to pace the corporations changes.
Lastly, we're all in on the contract reflects
the current environment.
Talk about Alpha as our labor union.
We're trying to get everybody on board for
a single unified goal moving forward. Our union
is the internal body of professionals, not just
an entity funded to represent us. And frankly,
our strength is in our collective unity.
Apple provides the framework and the resources to
advocate for our profession.
And talk about how the Me trans forming
to pace the corporation. Absolutely As Jose said
in his joint counsel comments, the company is
a amid strategic change and our Me must
transform
alongside the company to remain relevant.
The Me officers,
support staff, are committed to pace the change,
represent us with resolve and advocate for our
best interest in this transformation.
And finally, what does it mean when we
say we're all in on a contract that
reflects the current environment.
Yeah. So the landscape at Fedex and the
cross the commercial aviation industry has changed since
we began contract negotiations in 20 21. We've
all seen this. The company needs to be
transparent to achieve an equitable outcome, and we
trust the negotiating committee has our collective best
interests at heart as they reap approach these
negotiations.
It sounds like P role is critical in
this process.
P is instrumental in this process.
Our P volunteers are engaged to highlight the
issues that we face daily and report that
back to the Me so they have a
live pulse on the pilot group. There are
a lot of tough conversations ongoing in our
crew force every day in the crew rooms
and the cockpit.
P aims to help make sense of the
chaos, particular when when emotions are high. Our
team wants to remove the con and help
us all start having open honest truthful
conversations. About our future here at Fedex.
And this is more than just
conversations. Yes. A new symbolic land is available
to everyone willing to acknowledge our circumstances and
engage P in these conversations. It's an open
acknowledgment that our membership recognizes as the landscape
that we face. The challenges they're in and
the commitment to remain informed as we move
forward together.
So this is not just another lanyard. It's
more about what a lanyard symbolizes.
Thanks for that, Chris. That's exactly it. This
is an enduring message that goes well beyond
the current negotiating cycle. The environment is getting
tougher and tougher for our industry.
Whether combating corporate agendas,
navigating complex legislative agendas.
We need to stand with our union and
solidarity to achieve our expected outcomes.
Remind the pilots how to find P so
they can get their lanyard.
First, our P team will be available in
all the major hubs, Memphis, Andy Oakland Anchorage.
We will make ourselves available at the training
center and Ao otc here in Memphis. We
were gonna tag team along with family awareness
and make ourselves available to the pilot group
for that face to face conversation. We want
you to have the ability to reach out
to the Me. And vice versa, we have
some points from the Me that they would
like for you guys to be aware of.
And what if a pilot can't find a
P team member?
Yeah. Send us to dart. We'll set up
a time of place to have that conversation
with you. Or 1 of my P volunteer
reps will reach out via phone call. We
will get you the answers that you're looking
for. In the dark system, we have set
up as Lanyard. Please click on that. Follow
that link, follow a dart with us, and
we'll get back to you as soon as
we can.
And just to be clear, we're not mailing
these out like we have in the past.
Not yet. We wanna make this a personal
effort. I don't want it transactional at all.
There may be an opportunity to mail lanyard
in specific situations. But we'll address those on
a case by case basis based on your
darts.
Thanks for coming back, Andrew. Thanks for having,
Chris. And thanks for listening. If you have
any questions, please go to our website, FDX
dot alpha dot org and you utilize the
dart link. And as always, be safe out
there and we'll see you next time.