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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 5650599" data-attributes="member: 4550">Of course the void couldn&#039;t be filled by existing competition, which would give that much more motivation to the board to pursue a scorched earth strategy in attempting to weaken a union they spent decades trying to kneecap from every angle.&nbsp; If they know FedEx is a mess without us walking, then odds are they&#039;d collapse pretty quickly if hit with a surge and a huge portion of customers return once the impasse was over.&nbsp; There&#039;s no long term downside to the board.&nbsp; They gobble up shares on the cheap and their grandkids live on the dividends while 22.4&#039;s face layoffs for months at a time while the company gets to reduce capital expenditures due to a double digit percentage reduction in volume.I&#039;m not saying it&#039;s a given, or even &quot;likely&quot; at this stage but I can&#039;t see any evidence that would rule it out.&nbsp; It&#039;s just as possible as anybother scenario I&#039;ve seen floated here.&nbsp; I can remember 99% of both other drivers and management insisting at this point in &#039;97 that there was just no way we&#039;d ever see a strike with many providing the near exact same explanation as yours.&nbsp; Turned out a strike indeed happened and the working conditions became even worse after than before.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 5650599, member: 4550"] Of course the void couldn't be filled by existing competition, which would give that much more motivation to the board to pursue a scorched earth strategy in attempting to weaken a union they spent decades trying to kneecap from every angle. If they know FedEx is a mess without us walking, then odds are they'd collapse pretty quickly if hit with a surge and a huge portion of customers return once the impasse was over. There's no long term downside to the board. They gobble up shares on the cheap and their grandkids live on the dividends while 22.4's face layoffs for months at a time while the company gets to reduce capital expenditures due to a double digit percentage reduction in volume. I'm not saying it's a given, or even "likely" at this stage but I can't see any evidence that would rule it out. It's just as possible as anybother scenario I've seen floated here. I can remember 99% of both other drivers and management insisting at this point in '97 that there was just no way we'd ever see a strike with many providing the near exact same explanation as yours. Turned out a strike indeed happened and the working conditions became even worse after than before. [/QUOTE]

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