Originally Posted by Whistlin' Dan

Your "case" is just that...your case. The issues you raise pertaining to "promises" and "contracts" are not, as I understand it, the ones that the court was asked to consider in determining this case.

The crux of this case has nothing to do with what employees were told, what was in their contract, or what the customers perceive. What is at issue is very simple;

"Do FedEx delivery people work for FedEx, or do they work for some mythical, magical 'third-party' that seems to exist only in the mind of Fred Smith, his minions and legal staff, and operates completely independently of FedEx?"

Using a fair and reasonable interpretation of the word "independent" the answer would seem to be clear, that they DO in fact work for FedEx. The judge has ruled otherwise, however. Perhaps the word "independent" has different connotations in legal parlance than it does in common usage? In any case, it will be interesting to see where this ends-up on appeal.