FedEx Customers and Shareholders,

We‘re Absolutely, Positively FedUp.

Broken Promises.

We appreciate the rigor involved in, and applaud you meeting, our challenging hiring standards. Successful candidates contribute a wealth of knowledge and experience to our mission and help FedEx Express maintain its longheld position as the express transportation leader.

Excerpt from FedEx Pilot Job Offer Letter

FedEx praised new hires for meeting its "challenging hiring standards." Now, it challenges them to accept less pay, worse schedules and no respect.

We are committed to supporting and cultivating pilot excellence both professionally and personally... coupled with an unsurpassed compensation package, allows us to share our success among our elite team of crewmembers.

Excerpt from FedEx Pilot Job Offer Letter

FedEx promised a dream job, respect, and “unsurpassed compensation.” Instead, pilots are overworked, undervalued, and fighting for a fair contract after nearly 4 years of negotiations.

FedEx pilots are watching current management dismiss what made FedEx great. Management is now so focused on cost-cutting and shareholder value that they are neglecting the true stakeholders who earned FedEx’s global stature—its employees.

What has happened to Fred Smith’s People first philosophy? 

This wasn’t Founder and Executive Chairman Fred Smith’s vision. FedEx Pilots are FedUp with management that prioritizes profit over people.

Undervalued.

Despite delivering critical medical supplies and sustaining crucial nodes for e-commerce—leading to record-breaking profits at FedEx during the pandemic years—FedEx pilots are being cast aside in a financially engineered business plan. FedEx pilots are noting cultural erosion, degraded working conditions, and increased operational risks.

Disrespected.

The same group of pilots that ‘quite frankly, helped saved the world’ during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to FedEx founder and Executive Chairman Fred Smith, are FedUp with management’s short memory.

Hong Kong AsiaWorld-Expo makeshift COVID-19 hospital.

Hong Kong quarantine center workers distribute food.

Food provided at quarantine center.

FedEx pilots endured thousands of COVID-19 tests, quarantined in hotel rooms for days, and constantly faced the possibility of indefinite isolation in foreign countries.

Given the hardships we endured and the sacrifices we made while lining the pockets of shareholders, it’s time that FedEx shows us the respect we deserve during negotiations.

We're FedUp with FedEx.

FDX MEC Chair Nieves calls for “management to reassess the impact of recent optimization decisions and collaborate with us on a way ahead – a future that balances safety, productivity and quality of life in a challenging operating environment.”

Press Releases

FedEx Sells Out Its American Pilots, Ships U.S. Jobs Overseas

3/10/25

Safe Resolution of Engine Fire Event Underscores Critical Role FedEx Pilots Play

3/5/25

FedEx Pilots Union Maintains Continuity of Leadership by Reelecting Officers

1/15/25

Company Reports Earnings as FedEx Pilots Say They Are “FedUp”

12/20/24

International Focus at Risk Amid Labor Concerns

9/19/24

FedEx Pilots Mark 1,000 Days Without a New Contract

7/26/24

FedEx Leaves Pilots Behind While Rewarding Shareholders

6/26/24

FedEx Pilots Statement Regarding United States Postal Service Contract

4/1/24

FedEx Pilots Respond to Q3 Earnings Amid Ongoing Labor Issues

3/22/24

FedEx Pilots Request Release from the National Mediation Board

3/8/24

FedEx Pilots Tell Management: “We Aren’t Buying It”

1/5/24

FedEx Pilots Respond to $1 Billion Share Repurchase Agreement

12/28/23

FedEx Pilots Respond to Fiscal Second-Quarter Earnings

12/20/23

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