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<blockquote data-quote="The Mayor" data-source="post: 695095" data-attributes="member: 21132"><p>Your answer here is only partially true. First of all, you are correct in stating that while Fed Ex does in fact move most of its freight by air, that is only in the Express division. For the two parts that are incorrect to you response, may I submit the following.</p><p> </p><p>First, the Fed Ex Express pilots are unionized. That's a fact. Also a fact is that they are the highest paid in the industry. Another fact, at the end of last year ole Freddy boy told them that he was going to have to retire some aircraft, cut air routes and thereby cut some of his pilots. However, instead of this, the pilots voted and agreed to a lessening of their flight hours so they could keep all of the pilots at the current levels they are at now. Now with this being said, they all could of said screw you and walked, but they didn't cause they like getting their $167,000+ per year. If they did, that could of been devastating because it would of shut down the entire Express division. What is happening here with this legislation is the fact that it will give individual stations in their home state the right to vote and choose if they want to become unionized. I am sure that there are some locations that don't and that is fine, but ALOT of places do. </p><p> </p><p>Second, if Fed Ex did unionize we would have to see if it just affected the Express division or the Entire network of Fed Ex companies. Remember, FDX corporation is made up of 10 "different" operating companies. The biggest winner here though would be to the Ground division where Fed Ex has made some gains on UPS's market share and this is where "we" at Fed Ex could make a large and substantial gain. Me though, personally, I would rather see that if the Senate does approve this with the legislation in it that it would give the entire company union rights like UPS versus just individual locations. That would be huge. This individual location stuff could still greatly affect service, but not as much as the entire company. The people in Iowa could still be working happily, while half of California is shut down...either way, the majority of the operation is still going versus if EVERYONE was on strike like UPS was back in Aug 97. Bigger point to be made.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Mayor, post: 695095, member: 21132"] Your answer here is only partially true. First of all, you are correct in stating that while Fed Ex does in fact move most of its freight by air, that is only in the Express division. For the two parts that are incorrect to you response, may I submit the following. First, the Fed Ex Express pilots are unionized. That's a fact. Also a fact is that they are the highest paid in the industry. Another fact, at the end of last year ole Freddy boy told them that he was going to have to retire some aircraft, cut air routes and thereby cut some of his pilots. However, instead of this, the pilots voted and agreed to a lessening of their flight hours so they could keep all of the pilots at the current levels they are at now. Now with this being said, they all could of said screw you and walked, but they didn't cause they like getting their $167,000+ per year. If they did, that could of been devastating because it would of shut down the entire Express division. What is happening here with this legislation is the fact that it will give individual stations in their home state the right to vote and choose if they want to become unionized. I am sure that there are some locations that don't and that is fine, but ALOT of places do. Second, if Fed Ex did unionize we would have to see if it just affected the Express division or the Entire network of Fed Ex companies. Remember, FDX corporation is made up of 10 "different" operating companies. The biggest winner here though would be to the Ground division where Fed Ex has made some gains on UPS's market share and this is where "we" at Fed Ex could make a large and substantial gain. Me though, personally, I would rather see that if the Senate does approve this with the legislation in it that it would give the entire company union rights like UPS versus just individual locations. That would be huge. This individual location stuff could still greatly affect service, but not as much as the entire company. The people in Iowa could still be working happily, while half of California is shut down...either way, the majority of the operation is still going versus if EVERYONE was on strike like UPS was back in Aug 97. Bigger point to be made. [/QUOTE]
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