FedExer267
Well-Known Member
Had the founder of UPS been able to see the future, suffice it to say he would not have invited in the Teamsters. Your "pie in the sky" understanding of union history is rather troubling in one so eager to see them.
bbsam do a poll and ask any driver (not Contractor) if they would want a union you maybe suprised to see if we had the chance we would do it in a heartbeat. It is very clear to any Driver that we will never get treated fairly, We go to work and get pulled in diffrent directions by management when we dont even work for them.
Thats why I have said all along it might be diffrent if there was some mandated pay structure for the Ground employees but no its up to Contractors they get to run that part of the business because its another cost FedEx gets out of. A union may not be the answer to all our problems but its a far better choice than what Contractors are peddling. A decent wage and OT alone would change the morale of alot of drivers.
The thing you dont seem to get is this is a billon dollar company that lives and dies by its frontline employees. If I go to every account 3 hours early and tell them I am here now for you pickup how long do you calculate we will have that account. If we actually got paid for every minute we were on the clock, Customer Service would be alot better. FedEx cannot expect to hire and maintain a workforce of Express and UPS standards for the sweat shop pay Contractors a peddling. Professional drivers will eventually get tired and off they go, Which for those that stick around that is why their service numbers come down because we dont care. If you dont care enough to give your employees a decent wage for busting their humps eventually it will take its toll.
You can fire them sure but thats what they want because then they get unemployement.
Maybe this is a rumor because once ISP is in high gear we are all employees of a actual Corporation and all it will take is a few unionizing which in essence will force Contractors to the table and once it is clear that you will no longer make the posh living your used to because you run a Union Shop FedEx will have no choice but to step in and start buying out Contractors and wouldn't you have the right to turn around and sue them for changing the illegal model to cover their butts and thats the model that forced you into bankruptcy. Just a thought