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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 4614800" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>In 2010 the Bush Recession was still going strong and the recovering economy was fragile. There was some legislation that was designed to restrict the ability of companies to scare people away from voting to go union but I don't think it ever made it to the floor . Today unions make their money off of public sector employees in the aftermath of court rulings granting public employees collective bargaining rights. It was then simply a case of a group of public employees deciding on which union they wanted to join. </p><p></p><p>Changing the plight of box grunts at Fedex overall would first require a hard and sustained shift to the political left. A couple of years as in one term of congress won't get anything done. For Express to go union it would first require a complete dismantling of the RLA which would be tied up in the courts for probably at least a decade and any shift back to the right would likely end up in it being repealed by congress.</p><p></p><p>The only effective measure that could change the plight of Ground truck freight grunts would be another peak season debacle like last year only much worse. Multiple public relations embarrassments and total collapse of numerous hub operations . Not enough people willing to accept the terms of employment.</p><p></p><p>At the same time I don't think Ground is going to have much trouble this year. Too many laid off bar, bistro and beauty shop employees force to take the employment as appalling as it is to tide them over and holiday spending not as good as in the past couple of years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 4614800, member: 58386"] In 2010 the Bush Recession was still going strong and the recovering economy was fragile. There was some legislation that was designed to restrict the ability of companies to scare people away from voting to go union but I don't think it ever made it to the floor . Today unions make their money off of public sector employees in the aftermath of court rulings granting public employees collective bargaining rights. It was then simply a case of a group of public employees deciding on which union they wanted to join. Changing the plight of box grunts at Fedex overall would first require a hard and sustained shift to the political left. A couple of years as in one term of congress won't get anything done. For Express to go union it would first require a complete dismantling of the RLA which would be tied up in the courts for probably at least a decade and any shift back to the right would likely end up in it being repealed by congress. The only effective measure that could change the plight of Ground truck freight grunts would be another peak season debacle like last year only much worse. Multiple public relations embarrassments and total collapse of numerous hub operations . Not enough people willing to accept the terms of employment. At the same time I don't think Ground is going to have much trouble this year. Too many laid off bar, bistro and beauty shop employees force to take the employment as appalling as it is to tide them over and holiday spending not as good as in the past couple of years. [/QUOTE]
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