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<blockquote data-quote="beentheredonethat" data-source="post: 3585991" data-attributes="member: 4886"><p>It amazes me when people don't look at relatively recent history and see a pattern. Look at the auto industry in the 60's. Union shops demanding a ton of money, coupled with some poor management decisions allowed foreign competitors to come in and now dominate the market. Similar issues for steel industry etc. It seems that the union is always trying to kill the golden goose and not realize a steady stream of golden eggs is the best in the long term. When I started 30 years ago, it was any day that the union was going to unionize FDX (which then was only air) to level the playing field. Now, 30 plus years later, FDX air and FDX ground both aren't unionized and their payroll and HW and pension cost are tiny compared to UPS. They have automated their facilities to reduce their cost further. At the point which will be very soon, that they handle more volume than UPS, they will have delivery density better than ours and we will get beaten up by our competitors. Also, our competitor isn't just FDX and USPS. It is all the local couriers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beentheredonethat, post: 3585991, member: 4886"] It amazes me when people don't look at relatively recent history and see a pattern. Look at the auto industry in the 60's. Union shops demanding a ton of money, coupled with some poor management decisions allowed foreign competitors to come in and now dominate the market. Similar issues for steel industry etc. It seems that the union is always trying to kill the golden goose and not realize a steady stream of golden eggs is the best in the long term. When I started 30 years ago, it was any day that the union was going to unionize FDX (which then was only air) to level the playing field. Now, 30 plus years later, FDX air and FDX ground both aren't unionized and their payroll and HW and pension cost are tiny compared to UPS. They have automated their facilities to reduce their cost further. At the point which will be very soon, that they handle more volume than UPS, they will have delivery density better than ours and we will get beaten up by our competitors. Also, our competitor isn't just FDX and USPS. It is all the local couriers. [/QUOTE]
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