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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1143308" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Where are the strikes for all those you named? I worked at a supermarket for 4 years. They don't make that much. Why aren't they striking? We're talking about organizing, then striking to get something comparable to UPS. Are any of those groups making that kind of pay with those kind of benefits? I can say this until I'm blue in the face but it doesn't register with some here. We should do better than we are. We need a union to do better because if anything FedEx is eliminating the raises we've gotten in recent years by cutting hours. But under the RLA it just isn't going to happen and the people who could make it happen, Congressional Democrats, can only do it if they are in complete control of Congress and the White House. And they were bought off when they were in control. We don't work out of a few large factories. We are spread out amongst close to 700 facilities. Most don't have a clue about organizing efforts and no one is showing up to tell them. The Teamsters certainly aren't. Thus it's mathematically impossible to achieve your goals. And the company certainly knows it which is why they can act with impunity now. It's checkmate, and you're either going to have to recognize that or go through life totally deluded. What's sad is no one can state the obvious without being attacked as some kind of company shill. The difference between us and those groups you named is they are able to organize, we aren't due to the RLA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1143308, member: 24302"] Where are the strikes for all those you named? I worked at a supermarket for 4 years. They don't make that much. Why aren't they striking? We're talking about organizing, then striking to get something comparable to UPS. Are any of those groups making that kind of pay with those kind of benefits? I can say this until I'm blue in the face but it doesn't register with some here. We should do better than we are. We need a union to do better because if anything FedEx is eliminating the raises we've gotten in recent years by cutting hours. But under the RLA it just isn't going to happen and the people who could make it happen, Congressional Democrats, can only do it if they are in complete control of Congress and the White House. And they were bought off when they were in control. We don't work out of a few large factories. We are spread out amongst close to 700 facilities. Most don't have a clue about organizing efforts and no one is showing up to tell them. The Teamsters certainly aren't. Thus it's mathematically impossible to achieve your goals. And the company certainly knows it which is why they can act with impunity now. It's checkmate, and you're either going to have to recognize that or go through life totally deluded. What's sad is no one can state the obvious without being attacked as some kind of company shill. The difference between us and those groups you named is they are able to organize, we aren't due to the RLA. [/QUOTE]
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