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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 541569" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Most stations posted FedEx’s response to the House passing the FAA Reauthorization Bill, and the Senate not yet having taken it up (under Bronczek’s signature), Monday. It is rather long, but gives the game plan for FedEx to defeat attempts by its hourly employees to successfully establish collective bargaining. It is full of the usual FedEx euphuisms and distortions regarding the issues at hand.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Completely absent from the document was any mention of the unilateral abrogation of the defined benefit pension plan last year, the “suspension” of the 401K matching funds (which was supposed to be our “remedy” to make up for the gutted pension plan) and the pay freeze that has been in effect for the past 10+ weeks (contrary to the “PSP” philosophy FedEx practiced till a few years ago). Bronczek states that FedEx prefers a “direct relationship with its employees” (euphuism for a non-union company). When a company uses the “direct relationship…” phrase, it is carefully dancing around the fact that it is ANTI-UNION, and doesn’t want to have to compensate its employees as other union companies compensate their employees. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Bronczek goes on to state that both the Teamsters and UPS are in favor of FedEx losing its RLA exemption, which by definition is BAD for FedEx. He is absolutely right. It would be bad for the senior management and executives to have a union make its way into Express, and force a halt to the take-away’s which have characterized the relationship for the past few years. No hourly employee should EVER make the mistake of assuming that what is good for FedEx (the corporation) is good for them too; since PSP has died and has been replaced with a disingenuous employer/employee relationship (that “direct relationship with its employees” garbage). </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Other airlines (this is how Express views itself, as a part 121 cargo airline, NOT a company which moves packages from shipper to recipient), that have the “direct relationship…” with its employees are notorious for having low wages, poor benefits, poor working conditions and constant maneuvering by executive management to see just how many concessions they can get out of their employees, before they either generate an excessive turn-over rate, or unionize. We all know the turn-over rate FedEx has experienced in the past few years. If it wasn’t for the economy tanking late last year, the turn-over rate would’ve been astronomical this year. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Don’t allow FedEx get away with completing the process of turning us into “package monkeys”. Write your Senators and let them know we need to have FedEx’s RLA exemption revoked, so that we have some power to say NO to the abuse that we’ve been experiencing. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As an aside to my previous post, check the latest addition to the Teamster’s site for FedEx mechanics:</span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.fedxmx.com/" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">www.fedxmx.com</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> (no www…)</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The morning after I wrote my post (evening of May 28th), the Teamsters recommended writing your Senators to get them to include the revocation of FedEx’s RLA exemption. Sound advice if I may say so myself...</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We all know that June 1, 2009 was the start of the fiscal year for FedEx (where budgets and allowances are started from). If you haven’t already done so, check the balance for your uniform allowance for the fiscal year… Then ask your manager why the balance is what it is… You’ll get a kick out of the answer. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 541569, member: 22880"] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Most stations posted FedEx’s response to the House passing the FAA Reauthorization Bill, and the Senate not yet having taken it up (under Bronczek’s signature), Monday. It is rather long, but gives the game plan for FedEx to defeat attempts by its hourly employees to successfully establish collective bargaining. It is full of the usual FedEx euphuisms and distortions regarding the issues at hand.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Completely absent from the document was any mention of the unilateral abrogation of the defined benefit pension plan last year, the “suspension” of the 401K matching funds (which was supposed to be our “remedy” to make up for the gutted pension plan) and the pay freeze that has been in effect for the past 10+ weeks (contrary to the “PSP” philosophy FedEx practiced till a few years ago). Bronczek states that FedEx prefers a “direct relationship with its employees” (euphuism for a non-union company). When a company uses the “direct relationship…” phrase, it is carefully dancing around the fact that it is ANTI-UNION, and doesn’t want to have to compensate its employees as other union companies compensate their employees. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Bronczek goes on to state that both the Teamsters and UPS are in favor of FedEx losing its RLA exemption, which by definition is BAD for FedEx. He is absolutely right. It would be bad for the senior management and executives to have a union make its way into Express, and force a halt to the take-away’s which have characterized the relationship for the past few years. No hourly employee should EVER make the mistake of assuming that what is good for FedEx (the corporation) is good for them too; since PSP has died and has been replaced with a disingenuous employer/employee relationship (that “direct relationship with its employees” garbage). [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Other airlines (this is how Express views itself, as a part 121 cargo airline, NOT a company which moves packages from shipper to recipient), that have the “direct relationship…” with its employees are notorious for having low wages, poor benefits, poor working conditions and constant maneuvering by executive management to see just how many concessions they can get out of their employees, before they either generate an excessive turn-over rate, or unionize. We all know the turn-over rate FedEx has experienced in the past few years. If it wasn’t for the economy tanking late last year, the turn-over rate would’ve been astronomical this year. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Don’t allow FedEx get away with completing the process of turning us into “package monkeys”. Write your Senators and let them know we need to have FedEx’s RLA exemption revoked, so that we have some power to say NO to the abuse that we’ve been experiencing. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]As an aside to my previous post, check the latest addition to the Teamster’s site for FedEx mechanics:[/SIZE][/FONT] [URL="http://www.fedxmx.com/"][U][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]www.fedxmx.com[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] (no www…)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]The morning after I wrote my post (evening of May 28th), the Teamsters recommended writing your Senators to get them to include the revocation of FedEx’s RLA exemption. Sound advice if I may say so myself...[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]We all know that June 1, 2009 was the start of the fiscal year for FedEx (where budgets and allowances are started from). If you haven’t already done so, check the balance for your uniform allowance for the fiscal year… Then ask your manager why the balance is what it is… You’ll get a kick out of the answer. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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