”Therefore, according to the UAW, the RLA should not govern the company’s ground-service employees. FedEx Ex- press responded that, as an air carrier, all of its employees are subject to the RLA, because FedEx Express is a “unified operation with fully integrated air and ground services.”
Freight handled by Express employees would have to remain under the control of Express in order to maintain the “unified operation” that is necessary to continue RLA protections.
That necessitates shifting the freight to Ground BEFORE it’s shipped.