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<blockquote data-quote="morgan" data-source="post: 1448783" data-attributes="member: 40784"><p>I usually don't post on here because I know management is constantly on here reading what's written. but I'm reading a lot of posts pertaining to express. I have basically studied and read the "rla" and as it affects express and it is either every station and employee of express can unionize or none of it. fred operates express under this old outdated law to keep the union out and labor costs lower. he has tried with other opco's to keep unions out by trying to use the rla but more and more courts are ruling against that since ground and freight is mostly made up of trucking companies they purchased over the years. every time a ground or freight hub tries to unionize they send out the money men from Memphis to go fix the problem with money and perks. when the teamsters were close to getting the rla repealed about 5 or 6 years ago fred purchased himself a senator and threatened the economy by threatening to not purchase the planes he had on order(think it was around 25 planes) and by not expanding fedex. he ended up winning that round.</p><p>as I see it, with freight now stepping into the union they will soon expand the union within freight and then it'll be ground and home. once that is accomplished the teamsters will be in a great position to repeal a freight airline from the rla. fedex knows what the right thing to do is and hiding under the banner of the RLA is not it. it's only a matter of time now. and with how they screw with employees on a daily basis I can't wait till the RLA is history. maybe then express will be able to achieve top of range because the way it's structured now no new hire will ever top out even if they stay there till retirement with 25 plus years of service. fred should be ashamed of himself!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="morgan, post: 1448783, member: 40784"] I usually don't post on here because I know management is constantly on here reading what's written. but I'm reading a lot of posts pertaining to express. I have basically studied and read the "rla" and as it affects express and it is either every station and employee of express can unionize or none of it. fred operates express under this old outdated law to keep the union out and labor costs lower. he has tried with other opco's to keep unions out by trying to use the rla but more and more courts are ruling against that since ground and freight is mostly made up of trucking companies they purchased over the years. every time a ground or freight hub tries to unionize they send out the money men from Memphis to go fix the problem with money and perks. when the teamsters were close to getting the rla repealed about 5 or 6 years ago fred purchased himself a senator and threatened the economy by threatening to not purchase the planes he had on order(think it was around 25 planes) and by not expanding fedex. he ended up winning that round. as I see it, with freight now stepping into the union they will soon expand the union within freight and then it'll be ground and home. once that is accomplished the teamsters will be in a great position to repeal a freight airline from the rla. fedex knows what the right thing to do is and hiding under the banner of the RLA is not it. it's only a matter of time now. and with how they screw with employees on a daily basis I can't wait till the RLA is history. maybe then express will be able to achieve top of range because the way it's structured now no new hire will ever top out even if they stay there till retirement with 25 plus years of service. fred should be ashamed of himself! [/QUOTE]
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