It would be nice if there was a labor union that could organize FedEx. FedEx isn't doing that great with volume either. I have a FedEx Ground Contractor that lives on my area. A few years ago, he had four trucks sitting in his driveway on Monday, their off day. Lately, I have noticed two on Monday, and one of those sitting there during the rest of the week.
This could also be because fed ex has taken the work away from him. I am a volunteer organizer and the FedEx sups know me by name when we show up on their property because i really love giving it to them in front of the workers.
You would be surprised at some of the stories that i could tell you on how they treat their employees. They have 0 rights and even though they invest in purchasing the trucks, maintaining the trucks, gassing the trucks FedEx will just up and cancel their relationship with these drivers because they can.
You will see alot more lawsuits like this in the near future, this is because the teamsters are behind it. You cant beat Fred in Washington, just to many republicans friends of his.
So the teamsters have been very en-forceful on handling this on a state by state basis by filing these complaints with the attorney general and to my knowledge has not lost one yet.
Our day at walking into FedEx and organizing them is down the road, but everyone here can help on election day.
We all have our candidates that we are voting for for one reason or another democrat, Republican, independent but i believe that we all agree on the employee free choice act. Its very important for us to vote yes on this issue.
This will make organizing easier, as it is right now you have to have 30% of any work group sign cards and than register it with the NLRB. The NLRB than has 90 days to hold a work place election in this time the company than fires the supporters and intimidates the employees to vote against joining the union.
Under this new proposal the company will have to recognize the union with a majority of cards that have been signed by a work group.
When we organize here we will not go to the NLRB with less than 60% of cards, because people will get intimidated.
Under the new plan the company will not have enough time to badger the employees. Now i know some of you really don't like the union, but you do like your pension,Right?
If we cant keep up with organizing and giving others the chance to have rights in the work place, than its only a matter of time before our pension plans will be depleted.