I could go into a long diatribe explaining this, but you have the brains to figure out what I am saying;
Yes I know what you are saying, I just don't agree with you.
FedEx does not have a driver shortage - there is a wait to become a driver. Ground drivers pay many thousands of dollars to have the right to drive a route. I've never heard of one complaining that they are exploited. If one leaves, there are three to take thier place. Free market working the way it should.
You are talking about Fed Express having people waiting to get a driving job, so does UPS.
The ground "contractors" sign on the dotted line for thousands of dollars to get their foot in the door and many of them go broke trying to make ends meet. The ones that can, buy several routes to gain the volume they need to make it profitable and then hire kids for peanuts that really need a job and not a career. Zero health benefits, if the contractor takes a week of vacation he has to pay someone to run his route. If this was such a profitable thing for the workers, the law suits in Cali would never have been filed. The so called "contractors" are signing away the ranch based on a flowery picture painted by FedEx and too many are finding out that the profits are just not there as represented.
There is something really wrong with UPS employees trying convince FedEx drivers that they are unhappy.
I've never tried to make a Fed Ex driver believe a dang thing and don't know anyone that has.
Level the playing field? You mean drag them down with all the same burdens as every other union shop, don't you?
Let's all be honest in our hearts for just a second - Unionizing FedEx does not make UPS better in any way, it it will only hurt FedEx.
It is like two drag racers on a drag strip. One (UPS) has four flat tires, the other does not (FedEx). For UPS to "help" FedEx by flattening its tires - that is noble?
Oh I love analogies designed to show a slanted point.
Not flat tires but UPS is racing with a stock engine and Federal Express has a X-rayed, printed and balanced super charged rat motor. FedEx does not have to play by the same rules that UPS does and that isn't all because of unionization.
Don't think for a SECOND that UPS wouldn't copy the FedEx structure if given the chance. Any competent management would.
So you are saying that any competent management would screw over their people to make a profit? You may be right UPS would probably do it.
I do not apologize in the slightest for believing in the free market, for believing in supply and demand. Last I checked, Socialism was dead.
I believe in the free market also, but I also believe that workers need to be protected to an extent.
Socialism Dead? Tell that to the DEMOS.
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