Just as we saw with the Ground settlement. Walk in there and dump 600 million bucks on the table. All litigation ends, the plaintiffs attorney specs out his yacht, contractors get the scraps that have fallen on the floor, still not knowing if they are contractor or employee and Fat Freddy walks away laughing over his shoulder.
Who exactly is going to be funding and pursuing this imaginary court challenge?
We can start with the Federal Trade Commission. Then perhaps when competition gets even tougher one of the carriers or perhaps in partnership with other carriers decides that's it's worth a challenge.
At the risk of sounding just like you.....where exactly did you earn your degree in jurisprudence???
In his dreams after a few pints of Thunderbird.
You are correct and I pointed this out a few years ago. Should the RLA be amended with a special big money specific special interest exclusion targeting one class of employees from one single employer (essentially a bill of attainder), Express would spin off most driving jobs.
Same place Dano got his. He thinks that the RLA is the Eleventh Commandment. He thinks that no one dares to challenge it because it's God's will.
The exemption that says scheduled airlines fall under the Railroad Labor Act? Why would package delivery remove Express from the RLA?
If they thought they could without sinking the company, they would've done it years ago. They are simply trying to buy time and placate investors at this point. They painted themselves into a corner with having separate OPCOs, on e all employees, the other contractors. Raj and the rest of management has no clue of what they're doing.
Express is subbing out lower yield and higher expense work to lower cost contractors. CRAZY!
They’ve been working on it for years, probably a decade at this point. They built the opcos independently and it’s taking a while to fix all the backend issues that caused.
You "get it". Dano and the Usual Suspects want us all to believe that this changeover is "simple". It isn't. FDX just cannot unilaterally decide that one of its own opcos is a Third Party and then reap the financial rewards of having low-wage contract workers perform much of the Express system work.
Have President Trump explain it to you in terms you can understand.
Don’t recall anyone saying what you claim was said.
Because package delivery has no functions related to the airline.
The delivery part is not hard. It's the logistics part that will fail. Have you even planned your routes possibly delivering priority freight and on call pick ups along with ground freight?
Some stations are sending priority freight and pick ups to ground. It's like you don't even know what's going on.
How does that take away the RLA status of Express? The RLA status isn't about package delivery, it's about Express being a scheduled airline. Bacha said that more and more freight going to Ground will cause Express to lose its RLA status. How? Serious question.
Because the two OPCOs were completely separated with different systems. FedEx Express got the RLA status before Ground and kept it with the scam of two separate OPCOs. That's clearly not going to be the case in the near future thus making a single operating system like UPS. Why should Express drivers be covered under the RLA when the two are clearly being combined?
