Originally Posted by
FDXLAG
SOYA.
Get your facts straight, it is not union vice non-union it is RLA vice NLRA. The Express company is RLA the ground company is NLRA. If the teamsters want to organize the FDX ground contractors they are free to do so just have to do it shop by shop. If they want to organize the Express people they are free to do so, just have to do it on a nationwide basis.
If you dont think FDX pays for the trucks and the maintenance through the fees it pays to independent contractors how do you think they stay in business? You have an interesting grasp on private enterprise.
Not union vs non union? Why is FDX so adamanent to fight it? Why isn't the pilot group trying to help? UPS pilots support the Teamsters and the Teamsters support the IPA. Are Fed Ex pilots worried that there will be furloughs if they help FDX drivers organize? Are FDX pilots worried about being replaced? All I see on this forum is how bad UPS is. See the links below.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/129883/
"A spokesman from the FedEx headquarters in Memphis, TN, said the planes represent only two percent of their overall workforce. They say they have a contingency plan in effect if the pilots do strike. They say they could make up the difference with their 40,000 trucks."
I thought FDX wasnt a trucking company?
http://postandparcel.info/10428/comp...s-with-pilots/
"The strike talk ended when FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith and other senior managers began preparing to lease planes and flight crews from other companies. Pilots agreed to keep working and contract negotiations resumed."
"Four years ago, under the threat of strikes and replacement workers, FedEx and the Air Line Pilots Association settled the cargo airline's first union contract for U.S. employees. Now, that contract can be amended."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/23fedex.html
So there is no class action suits?
FedEx Drivers Lawsuit
There are drivers that earn over 100k but after it is all said and done when they visit the accountant it might be 30k? Fed Ex doesn't figure those margins in the quarterly and yearly earnings reports. Imagine if Fed Ex did? There goes your shipping discount
How do they stay in business? I'm going to research turnover of ground drivers. I'm going to research how many run it like a business and have multiple routes and pay the actual driver minimum wage or possibly less again with no bene's. Safety would be an issue too. I want to be factual and not speculate
Good news though. I might have a job working for a publication in the shipping industry.
