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MELedMel
At first they came for the ground guys, but I didn’t speak up as I was a pilot
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A multibillion-dollar federal delivery contract awarded to FedEx coincided with a sharp rise in the company's use of foreign workers, even as it carried out large-scale layoffs of U.S. employees across multiple states.
In December 2022, the U.S. Transportation Command selected FedEx and two other firms to provide package delivery services for government agencies under an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a total face value of $2.24 billion, according to a report by GovCon Wire.
The award covered the Next Generation Delivery Service-2 program, with a base performance period running from April 1, 2023, through September 30, 2026, and options that could extend the work through September 30, 2030.
Since that award, publicly available immigration data show a substantial increase in FedEx's hiring of foreign workers through the H-1B visa program...
https://dallasexpress.com/business-m...off-americans/
No comment yet from Fedex CEO Rajesh Subramaniam.”
Anyone wish to wager as to what country 99% of these visa holders are coming from?