MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Of all the strange dealings I've seen, Fred and his lackeys setting up a back door deal with big Ground contractors to "re-home" Express couriers for whatever reason does not seem far fetched at all. After all, FedEx SET UP the Ground infrastructure, which is massive. What would it take to re-home a few couriers? We all know he skirts what is considered ethical in business practice. Is it not plausible that he would skirt a contractual agreement or reword to his advantage somehow as well? Why let ethics get in the way of profit?
Fred would most certainly do this if he could, but as others have pointed-out, he'd lose his RLA security blanket. The whole Express RLA scam is predicated upon us being "airline employees", and therefore under the RLA and Fred's special "Express Carrier Exemption", which is a WTF gift from Congress if there ever was one.