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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1012357" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">You are mostly correct, but you have the premise flipped: under the Railway Act the company AS A WHOLE must vote to unionize, vs doing it building by building as it is done in UPS. Actually, if just ONE building could organize-and other FedEx workers see how they are represented and treated afterwards-unionization would spread like wikdfire through FedEx, one bldg at a time. However, because the majority of the WHOLE company must vote to unionize together, it makes it much harder. Some people don't want to rock the boat; some like it just as it is. Even heard FedEx tried to say some lower level mgrs and sups have the rigt to vote for a union.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">OTHO, FedEX ground is under the NRLB, like UPS, so you have an instance where they tried to organize a ground h</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">b somewhere in New England (but FedEx snuffed it out for the reasons I mentioned above if one of their bldgs went union). Ground would be very hard to organize, too, at least the service providers (drivers). FedEx uses contractors to run their routes, who then go out and buy the equipment and hire drivers. You'd have to organize the workers under each and every contractor, who could fire them at will before they could unionize. And if the workers under a particular contractor WERE successful in getting union representation, FedEx could just drop the contract with the affected contractor, and replace HIM. A daunting task, organizing FedEx Express or Ground.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1012357, member: 32753"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial] You are mostly correct, but you have the premise flipped: under the Railway Act the company AS A WHOLE must vote to unionize, vs doing it building by building as it is done in UPS. Actually, if just ONE building could organize-and other FedEx workers see how they are represented and treated afterwards-unionization would spread like wikdfire through FedEx, one bldg at a time. However, because the majority of the WHOLE company must vote to unionize together, it makes it much harder. Some people don't want to rock the boat; some like it just as it is. Even heard FedEx tried to say some lower level mgrs and sups have the rigt to vote for a union. OTHO, FedEX ground is under the NRLB, like UPS, so you have an instance where they tried to organize a ground h b somewhere in New England (but FedEx snuffed it out for the reasons I mentioned above if one of their bldgs went union). Ground would be very hard to organize, too, at least the service providers (drivers). FedEx uses contractors to run their routes, who then go out and buy the equipment and hire drivers. You'd have to organize the workers under each and every contractor, who could fire them at will before they could unionize. And if the workers under a particular contractor WERE successful in getting union representation, FedEx could just drop the contract with the affected contractor, and replace HIM. A daunting task, organizing FedEx Express or Ground.[/font][/color] [/QUOTE]
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