MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Look, working conditions and pay vary from region to region. It doesn't make since for the Northeast or Southwest regions to decide whats best for the rest of the country or vice versa. There are snowstorms in the Northeast, wildfires in the Southwest, and hurricanes on the Gulf coast all of which has an impact on service in those individual areas. Does this disrupt the entire network? Hell no, and neither would a local strike if it ever came to that.
The entire argument that the US economy would be disrupted by a FedEx strike is bogus and just another invention of the anti-union team in MEM. "Oh my, I can't get my Gucci loafers overnight!!" What will I do? How will I cope? Yes, some people would be inconvenienced, but is that a legitimate rationale for preventing workers from having the ability to organize? No, it isn't, but FedEx has a vested interest in pretending the world will end if we ever go on strike.
Quadro and his purple pals will come to work anyway and do it for free, just to keep America rolling. All those pilots too. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in Fred's office the first day a bunch of couriers walk-off the job and shut-down a station when he refuses to negotiate. In order to screw the whole thing up all you really need is 4 or 5 CTV drivers to leave the ramp, drive their truck to some business park, and just lock the keys in the cab. Pure chaos.