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<blockquote data-quote="quadro" data-source="post: 735574" data-attributes="member: 12850"><p>You are only painting part of the picture. UPS delivers about 2 to 2.5 times as many packages (including FedEx Ground) and almost 5 times as many as Express. I don't remember the numbers but I'm pretty sure that UPS makes more per package and with the number of packages that they deliver it makes a big difference.</p><p></p><p>My point isn't that FedEx can't afford to pay more or give better benefits, nor is it that a union won't be able to negotiate those things. My point is simply that there is and will always be a cost to that. The money to do all that has to come from somewhere. You can cut executive salaries, you can shed dead weight, etc, but that isn't going to provide the savings needed to spend an extra billion or so per year. That savings has to come from where the largest spend is, namely hourly employees. There are couriers in just about every station that you can hear on a daily basis complain that they have to go out and deliver 90 stops. What's going to happen when the union says "hey we got you $5/hour raise, we got your pension back, we got your medical insurance premiums reduced <strong>just like UPS</strong>......oh, and you only have to deliver 180 stops a day <strong>just like UPS</strong>".</p><p></p><p>As I've said before, I really don't have anything against a union, I'm just not willing to risk what I have for what I might get, or in this case, be required to do.</p><p></p><p>As for MrFedEx, what he wants is to do exactly what FedEx is doing except from the opposite side. He clearly would be happy with a purplebailout.com or an IamUnion.com and certainly wouldn't accept people using the same adjectives to describe those as he uses to describe the FedEx sites. After all, neither FedEx nor the unions are perfect. They both have their pros and cons (no pun intended).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quadro, post: 735574, member: 12850"] You are only painting part of the picture. UPS delivers about 2 to 2.5 times as many packages (including FedEx Ground) and almost 5 times as many as Express. I don't remember the numbers but I'm pretty sure that UPS makes more per package and with the number of packages that they deliver it makes a big difference. My point isn't that FedEx can't afford to pay more or give better benefits, nor is it that a union won't be able to negotiate those things. My point is simply that there is and will always be a cost to that. The money to do all that has to come from somewhere. You can cut executive salaries, you can shed dead weight, etc, but that isn't going to provide the savings needed to spend an extra billion or so per year. That savings has to come from where the largest spend is, namely hourly employees. There are couriers in just about every station that you can hear on a daily basis complain that they have to go out and deliver 90 stops. What's going to happen when the union says "hey we got you $5/hour raise, we got your pension back, we got your medical insurance premiums reduced [B]just like UPS[/B]......oh, and you only have to deliver 180 stops a day [B]just like UPS[/B]". As I've said before, I really don't have anything against a union, I'm just not willing to risk what I have for what I might get, or in this case, be required to do. As for MrFedEx, what he wants is to do exactly what FedEx is doing except from the opposite side. He clearly would be happy with a purplebailout.com or an IamUnion.com and certainly wouldn't accept people using the same adjectives to describe those as he uses to describe the FedEx sites. After all, neither FedEx nor the unions are perfect. They both have their pros and cons (no pun intended). [/QUOTE]
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