sounds like a UPS fan, employee, or teamster drone wrote these poorly chosen words. ask yourself who, other than UPS or Teamsters, benefits from putting FedEx Express under the NLRA??? It's definitely not the consumer nor the industry. This smells of payback for political contributions to sensible people...
After reading this there is certainly a lot of confusion and misinformation about this.
Consider these points:
NLRA already covers some FedEx operating companies…
FedEx LTL operating companies are already under the NLRA. It makes sense given they are a wholly owned end-to-end trucking network.
Differences…
FedEx Express is the largest Airline in the world that uses trucks for it’s pick up and last leg. FedEx Ground is a franchised delivery service.
The Ground Corporation only owns the line-haul, which is the smallest portion of the business, the rest is entirely independently owned.
Unlike both of these operating companies UPS is the largest end-to-end trucking company in the world. UPS owns every part of their network and is a true trucking company.
Who benefits….
Who, other than UPS or the Teamsters, benefits by putting the largest Airline in the World under the NLRA?
Teamsters…
Does anyone remember what happened between August 4th and 19th of 1997 when the Teamsters strike shut down UPS. It crippled the country and people were throwing packages over the fence at FedEx stations hoping that their packages would be delivered.
Should NLRA be imposed on FedEx the Teamsters will make unionizing FedEx a top priority. Should unionization efforts not succeed at first they will keep their unionized drivers from filling open positions at FedEx.
What’s next…
If the NLRA incorporates Airlines and Franchised businesses what’s next? Will it go after ocean freight just because they too offer delivery from the port to the final leg using a truck?
This kind of campaign is patently inane. Since I'm disabled, and rely on home delivery for a lot of my buying, I'm going to go out of my way to avoid having shippers send me goods via Federal Express. I realize that this doesn't have as much impact as if I were the owner of an Amazon.com, it's all I can do in my own small way.
Our SourceWatch website also has an extensive profile on the Burson-Marsteller firm, [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Burson-Marsteller here]. It's also linked to in the original Spin posting.
sounds like a UPS fan, employee, or teamster drone wrote these poorly chosen words. ask yourself who, other than UPS or Teamsters, benefits from putting FedEx Express under the NLRA??? It's definitely not the consumer nor the industry. This smells of payback for political contributions to sensible people...
more like advantage teamsters and disadvantage everyone else.
After reading this there is certainly a lot of confusion and misinformation about this.
Consider these points:
NLRA already covers some FedEx operating companies…
FedEx LTL operating companies are already under the NLRA. It makes sense given they are a wholly owned end-to-end trucking network.
Differences…
FedEx Express is the largest Airline in the world that uses trucks for it’s pick up and last leg. FedEx Ground is a franchised delivery service.
The Ground Corporation only owns the line-haul, which is the smallest portion of the business, the rest is entirely independently owned.
Unlike both of these operating companies UPS is the largest end-to-end trucking company in the world. UPS owns every part of their network and is a true trucking company.
Who benefits….
Who, other than UPS or the Teamsters, benefits by putting the largest Airline in the World under the NLRA?
Teamsters…
Does anyone remember what happened between August 4th and 19th of 1997 when the Teamsters strike shut down UPS. It crippled the country and people were throwing packages over the fence at FedEx stations hoping that their packages would be delivered.
Should NLRA be imposed on FedEx the Teamsters will make unionizing FedEx a top priority. Should unionization efforts not succeed at first they will keep their unionized drivers from filling open positions at FedEx.
What’s next…
If the NLRA incorporates Airlines and Franchised businesses what’s next? Will it go after ocean freight just because they too offer delivery from the port to the final leg using a truck?
This kind of campaign is patently inane. Since I'm disabled, and rely on home delivery for a lot of my buying, I'm going to go out of my way to avoid having shippers send me goods via Federal Express. I realize that this doesn't have as much impact as if I were the owner of an Amazon.com, it's all I can do in my own small way.
Our SourceWatch website also has an extensive profile on the Burson-Marsteller firm, [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Burson-Marsteller here]. It's also linked to in the original Spin posting.
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