LTFedExer
Well-Known Member
Again you try and put words in my mouth. I have no idea how many stations would go union. I wouldn't even try to guess. You sound like you're scared of a national vote (under current conditions)....yet you say a majority of stations would vote yes. Which means the majority of FedEx employees would vote yes.....no?If the RLA exemption were eliminated, how many stations would go union? If you believe FedEx Driver, LT FedExer and the rest, they'd say something like "a handful". How many is that? 3 or 4 stations full of bad-attitude "troublemakers" like me? So why not just drop the exemption and let FedEx deal with a couple of stations that choose to go union? FedEx could easily handle that. After all, aren't our pilots union? The company didn't fail, did it? That also begs this question. If the pilots were so happy, why did they vote for a union...twice? The first one was in-house, and the second one was ALPA. Simple logic should provide an answer. After all, these guys were already making good money and working for the best boss in the world. Why oh why would they want a union?
The reality is that an overwhelming number of locations would go union, and everyone knows it. Once again, what are all of you afraid of since the "overwhelming" majority of employees do not want a union. Are the rest of us going to force them to sign cards? Come on, Fred, just let it go and have us vote. Why can't you do that?
And exactly who would they intimidate and harass? How would they know which courier is voting which way?FedEx would never pay people off directly. They'd pressure people the same way they always have, through intimidation and harassment.
vantexan.....you don't seem to understand. MrFedEx is worried a national vote wouldn't vote in a union and that would be the end of it.But hasn't the RLA exemption been eliminated with the NMB rules change? We can now have a national vote with a simple majority of participating employees, not possible before. Now the issue is whether we'll do it that way or, if Congress approves it, be classified under the NLRA and have local elections. So no matter what Congress does now we can still vote in a union. FedEx certainly thought the new rules were unfair to them, challenging it, and losing, in court.
Just a little FYI......I have NO IDEA how I would vote. I've been in a union and have seen the pros and cons. The part that worries me is SOME people would vote FOR the union for the wrong reasons.
MrFedEx, you say you're not on Hoffa's payroll. Fine, I'll accept that. However, don't try and shove the union down my throat and accept it all as fact and the only way to be. You almost sound the religious fanatic trying to convert the world.