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<blockquote data-quote="JimJimmyJames" data-source="post: 533341" data-attributes="member: 11425"><p>It is legal at the moment. To use an extreme example, slavery was once legal too. Legality does not mean something is either right or moral.</p><p> </p><p>I do agree that UPSers want this resolved with an outcome favorable to them, out of self interest. But to think that people are not also capable of having altruistic intentions is wrong.</p><p> </p><p>And let's remember, if UPS is trying to persuade the government to pass laws in it's favor, so is FedEx. They both, in their own way, are "rent seekers". To heap scorn solely on UPS is not looking at the big picture.</p><p> </p><p>Why does the government allow unions? Because it realizes that allowing the legal fiction of the corporation as an "individual" to represent multiple owners (the shareholders), the government than must allow a union to act as the "individual" who negotiaites his wages with said employer. Why? Not out of fairness, but because people have the right to associate and gather with those who share their interests.</p><p> </p><p>It would seem to me that FedEx is trying to circumvent their employee's (just calling a spade a spade here, I know they are "independent" contractors) rights of unionizing but still want their own right to be a "union" of owners. Or in other words, a corporation. </p><p> </p><p>The contractor model is the tool they are using to accomplish this circumvention.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JimJimmyJames, post: 533341, member: 11425"] It is legal at the moment. To use an extreme example, slavery was once legal too. Legality does not mean something is either right or moral. I do agree that UPSers want this resolved with an outcome favorable to them, out of self interest. But to think that people are not also capable of having altruistic intentions is wrong. And let's remember, if UPS is trying to persuade the government to pass laws in it's favor, so is FedEx. They both, in their own way, are "rent seekers". To heap scorn solely on UPS is not looking at the big picture. Why does the government allow unions? Because it realizes that allowing the legal fiction of the corporation as an "individual" to represent multiple owners (the shareholders), the government than must allow a union to act as the "individual" who negotiaites his wages with said employer. Why? Not out of fairness, but because people have the right to associate and gather with those who share their interests. It would seem to me that FedEx is trying to circumvent their employee's (just calling a spade a spade here, I know they are "independent" contractors) rights of unionizing but still want their own right to be a "union" of owners. Or in other words, a corporation. The contractor model is the tool they are using to accomplish this circumvention. [/QUOTE]
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