Originally Posted by
MD10PLT
Yes, this is very worrisome. There was a post on the company web site a few months back from Fred Smith, addressing this issue. It was a very well written synopsis of the situation. The bottom line was, if this passes FedEx will be bankrupted in short order. Not due to the unionizing but due to the disjointed and localized method of the unionizing. He spelled out exactly how this would happen.
I know what all the old heads will say; "we received the same letter when we were trying to unionize". However, this would occur on such a large and disjointed scale, Fred Smith is probably right. But the good news is; this would give the government one more industry to take over and run.
I'm pretty much a "It doesn;t matter to a pilot" because both companies ultimately seem to be smart enough to consistently control cost and charge enough to be competitive AND make money. Reason many of us came to FedEx or UPS anyway. Bottom line, both need pilots to fly the revenue that can go no other way.
Germain to the discussion, Was under the impression that the current FedEx employees that would be affected by this proposed legislation were not particularly supportive of unions anway. FedEx certainly has a better rep than UPS regarding management-employee relations. Why the assumption that they will organize anyway? Skywest pilots have put it off a few times.