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1989

After almost two years of talks, the Management/FAB Committee, tasked with designing an "A/B Reserve" system, presents their plan. Management agrees to test the A/B Reserve System on the B-727 engineers for one bid period. At the conclusion of the test, management states the plan will "cost more than the present reserve system and therefore is too expensive to justify implementation." It will be 10 more years before the A/B Reserve System is implemented as part of the FedEx pilots' first collectively bargained agreement on May 31, 1999.

Three members of the FAB, Capts. Don Engebretsen, Al Smith, and John Poag, resign and start an independent union movement in hope of giving FedEx pilots some control over the upcoming seniority list arbitration between the FedEx/Tiger pilot groups. They take this action when it becomes evident that management is reneging on the commitment they made to protect the interests of the "Purple" pilots in the proposed seniority integration. Without knowledge of the FAB and contrary to their stated intentions, management has constructed a merger list that will result in minimal training costs to the Company. It is important to note that the seniority arbitration wasa tripartite arbitration, in which FedEx was an equal party to both the FedEx and Tiger pilot groups. This created a clear conflict of interest for FedEx management. They chose the least costly course of action. However, if the FedEx pilots had their own union, then seniority integration would be a contractual issue between the two unions.

FedEx History, how the Pilots got the Union in, and all the stuff Fedex management did on their end.

1989

After almost two years of talks, the Management/FAB Committee, tasked with designing an "A/B Reserve" system, presents their plan. Management agrees to test the A/B Reserve System on the B-727 engineers for one bid period. At the conclusion of the test, management states the plan will "cost more than the present reserve system and therefore is too expensive to justify implementation." It will be 10 more years before the A/B Reserve System is implemented as part of the FedEx pilots' first collectively bargained agreement on May 31, 1999.

Three members of the FAB, Capts. Don Engebretsen, Al Smith, and John Poag, resign and start an independent union movement in hope of giving FedEx pilots some control over the upcoming seniority list arbitration between the FedEx/Tiger pilot groups. They take this action when it becomes evident that management is reneging on the commitment they made to protect the interests of the "Purple" pilots in the proposed seniority integration. Without knowledge of the FAB and contrary to their stated intentions, management has constructed a merger list that will result in minimal training

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