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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 1024097" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>While I agree that we blew our opportunity to organize, there never has been an excellent "opportunity" anyway because it's always been up to us. The Teamsters ran like babies after Fred's RLA was extended back in 1996, and they've never stopped running. It's always been on us because they wouldn't do the necessary work to make it happen. They want our membership, but they can't be bothered to come out to stations to get cards signed, they won't provide legal assistance to targeted employees, and their latest tactic was to create "political pressure" in DC on the FAA Reauthorization Act. Once again, another miscalculation, and another abysmal failure. I stepped-up back then, and then barely kept my job after they cut and ran. They wouldn't even answer my calls.</p><p></p><p>Here's what the Teamsters do NOT understand about FedEx, and that's the anti-union FedEx culture. Anyone with half a brain at Express knows it's a career death sentence to even mention a union. That means that many employees are literally scared for their jobs, unaware of their rights, and in exactly the place where Fred S wants them....afraid and uninformed.</p><p></p><p>This isn't an excuse or a rationalization...it's simply the way it is. Our failure has been that we didn't act on our own behalf and realize that the Teamsters weren't going to come charging-in on a white horse to save the day. Mr. Hoffa doesn't know which end of the horse does what anyway, which should be obvious from his "leadership".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 1024097, member: 12508"] While I agree that we blew our opportunity to organize, there never has been an excellent "opportunity" anyway because it's always been up to us. The Teamsters ran like babies after Fred's RLA was extended back in 1996, and they've never stopped running. It's always been on us because they wouldn't do the necessary work to make it happen. They want our membership, but they can't be bothered to come out to stations to get cards signed, they won't provide legal assistance to targeted employees, and their latest tactic was to create "political pressure" in DC on the FAA Reauthorization Act. Once again, another miscalculation, and another abysmal failure. I stepped-up back then, and then barely kept my job after they cut and ran. They wouldn't even answer my calls. Here's what the Teamsters do NOT understand about FedEx, and that's the anti-union FedEx culture. Anyone with half a brain at Express knows it's a career death sentence to even mention a union. That means that many employees are literally scared for their jobs, unaware of their rights, and in exactly the place where Fred S wants them....afraid and uninformed. This isn't an excuse or a rationalization...it's simply the way it is. Our failure has been that we didn't act on our own behalf and realize that the Teamsters weren't going to come charging-in on a white horse to save the day. Mr. Hoffa doesn't know which end of the horse does what anyway, which should be obvious from his "leadership". [/QUOTE]
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