Ok. I'll bite. I don't know whether you wrote that or copied it from sonewhere, but it contains a lot of blanket statements and compares apples to oranges, ie. other industries and unions and delivery companies and IBT.
1. I agree with this to a point. Unions DID help the cause of the American workers and also create problems, such as bad teachers in NYC not being able to be fired. But I don't feel that unions are ALL bad.
2. Apples to oranges. FedEx Express has highest prices, non union. UPS, union, prices close to fedex. USPS, union, cheaper prices. FedEx Ground, non union, cheapest prices.
3. Again, apples to oranges. People in India, China, etc can't dlvr packages here. Irrelevant
4. We dlvr packages from point A to point B. As long as you don't steal or falsify, it's pretty hard to get fired at FedEx too. Less proficient workers are protected from firing here because as long as they show up, they are good.
5. Apples to oranges.
6. Who curries more favor in Washington than Fred S?
7. Apples to oranges. Plenty of non union people at FedEx.
8. Any company, union or non union has plenty of lazy people. With the onroad goals expected by both FEdEx and UPS this is a moot point. If anything, the newer couriers know they will never reach top pay, so why rush?
9. We already have an innate distrust of mgmt in a lot of cases. We used to work for a common goal. Now it's us against them.
10. That's why members pay their dues.
11. This is one point I agree with you on. People should be able to choose whether they want to be in a union or not, however, if they choose not to, they shouldn't be able to reap the benefits of union representation. "Substantial dues" though? Don't believe the hype Fedex fed us for so long. Dues aren't substantial.
12. Apples and oranges again. We don't get to negotiate ANYTHING. It is what it is.
13. Probably still true. Lol.
14. Seems to me, considering how cash rich UPS is, they're having no problems getting investors.