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Old 03-12-2009, 06:59 AM
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Flyinhigh
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Actually, it is FedEx Ground. This was the model used by RPS before FedEx bought the company. Nobody seemed to care that these guys were contractors at a small outfit like RPS. Suddenly, when it is FedEx and we are getting in to UPS's shorts, the employees are unhappy and want to unionize. If you talk to any of these contractors, the vast majority are happy and, as usual, it is a small percentage that are disgruntled. From the people I have talked with, there is a tremendous amount of Teamster money being thrown at this thing to get these guys declared employees and to get them unionized. Probably not going to happen as too many of them are satisfied with the way things are. It also has something to do with the multiple route contractors who are not going to be declared employees but rather keep their contractor status.
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