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The FedEx master executive council (MEC) voted late on Thursday
to approve the collective bargaining agreement reached on Aug.
19 with the package delivery company, the association said on
Friday.
More than 4,000 FedEx pilots will now vote on the agreement in
balloting scheduled to begin on Sept. 28 and end on Oct. 20.
FedEx and its pilots have been negotiating on employment
conditions since 2011 and the company filed for a mediation
process with the National Mediation Board in October last year.
If ratified, the contract will go into effect in November and it
will become amendable in 2021.
"We are pleased with the MEC's decision and are confident our
pilots will recognize that this is an agreement that keeps them
at the pinnacle of their profession," FedEx spokesman Jim
McCluskey told Reuters.
(Reporting by Ankit Ajmera and Ramkumar Iyer in Bengaluru;
Editing by Kirti Pandey)
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