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FedEx Home wins round in Unionization efforts
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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 537392" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>I graduated with honors from the Possum Flats campus. I'm thinking of going back to East Bicycle Seat for my Masters.If you understand being an IC so well, how come you didn't understand the independent contractor status of a real estate agent? FedEx has muddied the waters by the degree of control they exert over their "IC's", which is considerable. In my opinion (and many others), that extensive control over the manner in which IC's do their job makes them "employees". </p><p> </p><p>Let's go back to a realtor, who works his or her own schedule, pays their own taxes quarterly, and generally performs their job duties without direct oversight. My broker doesn't monitor me every minute with a tracking device like FedEx does, nor does she require me to be any place at any particular time, like FedEx does. My duties meet the standards for being a true IC, unlike FedEx Ground. Can you see that there's a big difference there?</p><p> </p><p>Just curious. Why wouldn't a UPS employee be in favor of the FedEx Ground advantage going away? A lot of IC's flat-rate their drivers and pay them a salary so they don't have any OT, or hire guys who can hardly speak English and will work for $10-$13 per hour with no benefits. How do you expect a legitimate company like UPS to compete with that kind of cost structure?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 537392, member: 12508"] I graduated with honors from the Possum Flats campus. I'm thinking of going back to East Bicycle Seat for my Masters.If you understand being an IC so well, how come you didn't understand the independent contractor status of a real estate agent? FedEx has muddied the waters by the degree of control they exert over their "IC's", which is considerable. In my opinion (and many others), that extensive control over the manner in which IC's do their job makes them "employees". Let's go back to a realtor, who works his or her own schedule, pays their own taxes quarterly, and generally performs their job duties without direct oversight. My broker doesn't monitor me every minute with a tracking device like FedEx does, nor does she require me to be any place at any particular time, like FedEx does. My duties meet the standards for being a true IC, unlike FedEx Ground. Can you see that there's a big difference there? Just curious. Why wouldn't a UPS employee be in favor of the FedEx Ground advantage going away? A lot of IC's flat-rate their drivers and pay them a salary so they don't have any OT, or hire guys who can hardly speak English and will work for $10-$13 per hour with no benefits. How do you expect a legitimate company like UPS to compete with that kind of cost structure? [/QUOTE]
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