MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Underground efforts? You helping wage slaves escape? Seriously, any talk of sabotage doesn't help matters and could land someone in jail. No one likes to be lied to or exploited. But for crying out loud we still have it better than many and the new rules of the RLA allow a union vote. FexEx is what it is, take your anger out on those who deserted us: the Democratic Congress and the Teamsters. And wake up to the new economic reality of the world, we aren't what we once were, and the powers that be are making sure they get their cut first.
You're sounding like an apologist. While you're correct about the impotent Democratic Congress and the equally flaccid Teamsters, exactly what are we supposed to do? Should we just sit here and take the abuse, or actually do something to indicate to upper management that we've "had enough"? Rationalizing that "we have it better than many" isn't going to accomplish anything.
I've suggested this before, and I really think it would work. Start talking to the folks who control the movement of freight in and out of your stations...the RTDs'. All it would take is a couple of CTV drivers to "slow down" or "forget" the way to the station before management would get a hint. This is not a happy workgroup, from what I've been able to discern. Another method is for couriers to simply do everything "by the book". Full breaks, safe driving, no falsification, and no mixing SOS with the PO. All MEM cares about these days is productivity, and if stop counts start falling-off because employees are playing by the P&P Rules, what can they do about it? NOTHING. But as long as we get buffaloed into staying productive, the caning to work harder and faster will never stop.
I really don't know what the Teamsters are waiting for. They know that the bulk of Express employees are pissed-off, yet there seems to be zero movement on their part. Who knows, perhaps Fred has cut a deal with the IBT in return for them not trying to organize Express.