It doesn't look good . . . Sounds like Harry Reid is going to cave
http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNN1013945120100310?rpc=44
FDX is an airline with trucks. UPS is a truck company with airplanes. Rules are rules.
You people always amuse me. I'm a courier at express and we deliver packages out of a truck not from an airplane or helicopter. I don't know how many times we have to go over this, but a driver is a driver, not a damn pilot!!FDX is an airline with trucks. UPS is a truck company with airplanes. Rules are rules.
Pssst, hey Broke, go tell that to Freddie. He obviously dont get it yet either. Air bus was quoting him and his position on the issue.You people always amuse me. I'm a courier at express and we deliver packages out of a truck not from an airplane or helicopter. I don't know how many times we have to go over this, but a driver is a driver, not a damn pilot!!
I was just quoting my position on the issue. Even a 2 year old could understand the difference between a pilot and a truck driver. I guess if you have as much money as Smith then you can turn reality into whatever you want it to be.Hey guys, airbus is stating what is, not what he thinks. What he posted is the way it is set up legally, and that is what needs to be changed. We all know that both companies do exactly the same thing everyday. It is a to be union/non union situation.
I dont think that it will pass. Obama said that Fred was the businessman he most admired out of all the business people in the world. You dont say that about someone unless you mean it.
Are you listening all you union thugs that have hitched your stars to the Obama express????? HE thinks the most anti-union exec out there is the one he most admires.
BTW, I believe that the true union members, the ones that actually work for a living and not rabble rouse, are much more conservative than the unions leaders would like to think. It wont be long before the leaders will again use force to keep the members toeing the line. JMHO
Pssst, hey Broke, go tell that to Freddie. He obviously dont get it yet either. Air bus was quoting him and his position on the issue.
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Once dear fred decided to get into the ground business he opened himself up to this change. I'll agree that your airline pilots can stay under the RLA if you can agree that all your truck drivers should be under the NLRA. I doubt you will agree, so there for, get rid of your ground businees and go back to being an express company. Fedex...an airline...its a freakin delivery company you clown.FDX is an airline with trucks. UPS is a truck company with airplanes. Rules are rules.
FDX was chartered under FAR121 in the 1970s, UPS was chartered in the 1920s and updated to make sure they are under the NRLB. Again FDX is under the NMB and it is was it is, like someone quoted. The best thing to do is Google FAA Reautho Bill and you can read the details. The main thing is that UPS wants FDX to be able to strike but their employees would never attack Fred S. I have friends that mechanic and fly at FDX and IT IS a different enviroment. FDX takes care of their people, WE make more, have better benefits and have contractual wording to keep UPS somewhat playing within the guidelines. Fred and John Kerry are big friends and the Dems have other things better to do, BUT they did take UPS's kickbacks, or contributions to be fair, but again it is what it is.
I believe Ground is already covered under the NLRAI agree with "happybob" that Fred started this when he got into the ground business. With current federal/state deficits, I don't think his political contributions/lobbying can keep the independent contractor model going. I hope ground drivers are freed to be true contractors or made employees of fedex and classified under the NLRA. But I doubt either will happen soon.
The company never should have been under the RLA in the first place. That was supposed to cover airlines, which Fed-ex is not. It's a delivery company that was handed a sweet entry into the delivery business without having to allow local union elections. The pilots can be covered under the RLA, but every damm truck driver should be under the NLRA.
FDX is an airline with trucks. UPS is a truck company with airplanes. Rules are rules.