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How dare UPS layoff workers after profitting $5.8 BILLION in 2010?
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<blockquote data-quote="PT Stewie" data-source="post: 806545" data-attributes="member: 12889"><p><strong>By <a href="http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=BOB+SECHLER&bylinesearch=true" target="_blank"><span style="color: #093d72">BOB SECHLER</span></a> </strong></p><p></p><p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=UPS" target="_blank"><span style="color: #093d72">United Parcel Service</span></a> Inc. has stopped lobbying Congress to approve a labor provision opposed by rival <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=FDX" target="_blank"><span style="color: #093d72">FedEx</span></a> Corp., acknowledging that the battle appears to be over at least for the next two years. </p><p>"The current Congress does not appear disposed to addressing this inequity in labor law," UPS spokesman Norman Black said during an interview. </p><p>Mr. Black said UPS still thinks it is in the right and likely will take up the issue again if political winds shift. For now, however, "we're no longer engaged in any lobbying activities around it," he said. </p><p>UPS, as well as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, backed the labor provision that would have made it easier for some FedEx truck drivers and other employees to unionize by putting them under the same law governing UPS employees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PT Stewie, post: 806545, member: 12889"] [B]By [URL="http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=BOB+SECHLER&bylinesearch=true"][COLOR=#093d72]BOB SECHLER[/COLOR][/URL] [/B] [URL="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=UPS"][COLOR=#093d72]United Parcel Service[/COLOR][/URL] Inc. has stopped lobbying Congress to approve a labor provision opposed by rival [URL="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=FDX"][COLOR=#093d72]FedEx[/COLOR][/URL] Corp., acknowledging that the battle appears to be over at least for the next two years. "The current Congress does not appear disposed to addressing this inequity in labor law," UPS spokesman Norman Black said during an interview. Mr. Black said UPS still thinks it is in the right and likely will take up the issue again if political winds shift. For now, however, "we're no longer engaged in any lobbying activities around it," he said. UPS, as well as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, backed the labor provision that would have made it easier for some FedEx truck drivers and other employees to unionize by putting them under the same law governing UPS employees. [/QUOTE]
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