I really think if the teamsters wanted to they could get all of FedEx. They aren't willing to get on the ground and do the dirty work though.
I really think if the teamsters wanted to they could get all of FedEx. They aren't willing to get on the ground and do the dirty work though.
Wow.
It is mind boggling how little you know about organizing.
Right now, Ground is all independent contractors. Most have very few employees. Very, very few buildings have only one contractor, that means dealing with more than one group at every building. Any idea how much that would cost???? Plus, if a contractor does unionize, it is probable that the contractor would lose their contract.
Going after individual Freight terminals is the only way to get a union foot in the door.
What's mind boggling is that you didn't understand I was referring to the Ground hubs, not the drivers. The drivers are 1099'd Independent Contractors, the employees in the FedEx Ground hubs are not.
The FedEx Ground network is expanding and FedEx is sinking tons of revenue into expanding existing facilities as more and more volume shifts over to ground. The hub workers at FedEx Ground hubs perform similar jobs as those that work in UPS facilities and they are covered under the NLRA rather than the RLA. We can't go after the drivers until the independent contractor model is finally ruled illegal by the courts or individual state legislatures. However, we can go after the ground hub workers right now and did so in Brockton, MA back in ~2011 but pulled out before the election.
U kno Fred ain't no dummy. This is why he pays his part timers so well I think. Money isn't the only thing but its the most important thing. Teamsters have a hard sell when your telling a FedEx worker how great the ups part timers have it and they are already making $5 an hour more than the ups workers.
I go into a FedX ground facility at least twice a week to pick up our packages that end up in their trailers at bulk shippers. Always take the opportunity when asked about the benefits of being a union member, there's a lot of people inside working the belts and sorts. They pretty much run the same way as our facilities, only they get paid a few dollars less. IMO the only problem in organizing these places is the fact that there's really not a large enough difference in pay for inside people to be willing to risk their jobs to unionize. If the Teamsters were really serious about organizing FedX they needed to take care of the PT'ers at UPS first with a reasonable wage and make the difference enough to use as an example of what FedX workers could earn if unionized.