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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 878761" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>You (vantexan) obviously can't make any public comment about organizing under your BC "ID". You have identified yourself publically, so you can't tie anything to yourself. </p><p></p><p>However, others can engage in a quiet, behind the scenes effort to at least get some literature out. Use the following link to get set up with the Teamsters to get some direct information (don't expect much):</p><p></p><p><a href="http://teamsterair.org/contact" target="_blank">http://teamsterair.org/contact</a></p><p></p><p>To see what the Teamsters are really interested in with regards to those that would be covered under their airline division (it isn't pretty for Express wage employees)</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://teamsterair.org/campaigns" target="_blank">http://teamsterair.org/campaigns</a></p><p></p><p>Finally, the link (again) to get yourself set up as an organzier at your location:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/organizing-assistance-request-form" target="_blank">http://www.teamster.org/content/organizing-assistance-request-form</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you really believe that you'd be better off with a collective bargaining agreement, then start doing something other than bitching about the situation. The Teamsters aren't going to send out a team to hold everyone's hand and make sure Fred plays nice - won't happen. This is something that the employees of Express are going to have to do all the heavy lifting on. The best chance the employees had of gettting the RLA status pulled came and went - the Democrats blew that (along with a boat load of other things in 2009-2010). Given the current political climate, it will be at least another 6 years before Express is looking at having to defend its RLA status again - by that time, Express will have completed its reorganization and it will be too late. </p><p></p><p>By trying to get a union into Express, you are going up against a corporate machine that has spent in excess of $100 million in the past few years JUST to keep the RLA status in place for Express. If Fred has to spend $50 million a year from now on to keep the Teamsters out, he will do just that and think nothing of it - it is all a cost of doing business for him.</p><p></p><p>When going up against a corporate colossus such as this, you can't openly confront company management - you have to stay in the shadows and always have an element of deniability regarding your actions. It isn't what one can characterize as "fair play" - the stakes for FedEx are high, so they will do everything they can to prevent a successful unionization drive, including using trumped up allegations of shoddy work performance to give them cover to get rid of you without facing charges of retaliation merely for union activity. </p><p></p><p>Hand out literature without anyone seeing you actually placing it. Place information on fellow coworkers automobiles (if they are parked without video surveillance), Set up an email account that isn't identifiable to you, then try to get the email accounts of coworkers and "spam" the hell out of them with unionization info. Those that have the least bit of interest will repond, the others will have your email automatically moved into their spam filter. </p><p></p><p>The Teamsters have more suggestions as to ways to get out information without you being linked to it. </p><p></p><p>Sitting back and waiting for someone else to make things better for you isn't going to get a damn thing accomplished. If Express is spending millions of bucks a year to keep you from having a realistic chance of organizing - they fear that happenstance more than they dislike paying to keep their status.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 878761, member: 22880"] You (vantexan) obviously can't make any public comment about organizing under your BC "ID". You have identified yourself publically, so you can't tie anything to yourself. However, others can engage in a quiet, behind the scenes effort to at least get some literature out. Use the following link to get set up with the Teamsters to get some direct information (don't expect much): [URL]http://teamsterair.org/contact[/URL] To see what the Teamsters are really interested in with regards to those that would be covered under their airline division (it isn't pretty for Express wage employees) [URL]http://teamsterair.org/campaigns[/URL] Finally, the link (again) to get yourself set up as an organzier at your location: [URL]http://www.teamster.org/content/organizing-assistance-request-form[/URL] If you really believe that you'd be better off with a collective bargaining agreement, then start doing something other than bitching about the situation. The Teamsters aren't going to send out a team to hold everyone's hand and make sure Fred plays nice - won't happen. This is something that the employees of Express are going to have to do all the heavy lifting on. The best chance the employees had of gettting the RLA status pulled came and went - the Democrats blew that (along with a boat load of other things in 2009-2010). Given the current political climate, it will be at least another 6 years before Express is looking at having to defend its RLA status again - by that time, Express will have completed its reorganization and it will be too late. By trying to get a union into Express, you are going up against a corporate machine that has spent in excess of $100 million in the past few years JUST to keep the RLA status in place for Express. If Fred has to spend $50 million a year from now on to keep the Teamsters out, he will do just that and think nothing of it - it is all a cost of doing business for him. When going up against a corporate colossus such as this, you can't openly confront company management - you have to stay in the shadows and always have an element of deniability regarding your actions. It isn't what one can characterize as "fair play" - the stakes for FedEx are high, so they will do everything they can to prevent a successful unionization drive, including using trumped up allegations of shoddy work performance to give them cover to get rid of you without facing charges of retaliation merely for union activity. Hand out literature without anyone seeing you actually placing it. Place information on fellow coworkers automobiles (if they are parked without video surveillance), Set up an email account that isn't identifiable to you, then try to get the email accounts of coworkers and "spam" the hell out of them with unionization info. Those that have the least bit of interest will repond, the others will have your email automatically moved into their spam filter. The Teamsters have more suggestions as to ways to get out information without you being linked to it. Sitting back and waiting for someone else to make things better for you isn't going to get a damn thing accomplished. If Express is spending millions of bucks a year to keep you from having a realistic chance of organizing - they fear that happenstance more than they dislike paying to keep their status. [/QUOTE]
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