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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 728972" data-attributes="member: 12508">In this &quot;bad economy&quot;, Fred just spent a wad on new airplanes and has commited to buy 38 777&#039;s and 190 used 757&#039;s. As I&#039;ve said before, nobody is expecting UPS wages, only what&#039;s &quot;fair&quot;. You, of all people, should understand just how badly Smith has been taking-it to us for years. Do you think he&#039;s going to use the bad economy to try and scare people out of signing cards. You bet he is, and it sounds like it&#039;s working on you already.&nbsp;Expect a &quot;nice&quot; campaign by the company telling us how bad unionizing will be, and how &quot;good&quot; we&#039;ve got it now. Many of the mentally challenged will fall for it. When that doesn&#039;t work, expect the &quot;nasty&quot; version, where our jobs will be threatened, or we&#039;ll get locked-out, or the National Guard will be called-in to drive trucks so the economy isn&#039;t &quot;disrupted&quot;. More will get afraid and tremble at the power of the great and powerful Oz.&nbsp;Here&#039;s some reality. FedEx doesn&#039;t have enough people to adequately cover their business right now. Couriers are still quitting, even in the midst of a recession because the job and wages suck. There is no future for anyone who is an hourly under the present wage and benefit plans. This has nothing to do with entitlement programs. I&#039;m sure the Tea Bag set will try to paint any changes to the RLA or the RLA exemption as an attack on the Free Market. Whatever. Guess what the biggest entitlements are anyway? Social Security and Medicare, neither of which the conservatives realize are entitlement programs of which most of these oldsters are the primary beneficiaries. Perhaps they are too stupid to figure it out, so they&#039;ll have to wait for Rush and Beck to fill them with the &quot;truth&quot;. Sad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 728972, member: 12508"] In this "bad economy", Fred just spent a wad on new airplanes and has commited to buy 38 777's and 190 used 757's. As I've said before, nobody is expecting UPS wages, only what's "fair". You, of all people, should understand just how badly Smith has been taking-it to us for years. Do you think he's going to use the bad economy to try and scare people out of signing cards. You bet he is, and it sounds like it's working on you already. Expect a "nice" campaign by the company telling us how bad unionizing will be, and how "good" we've got it now. Many of the mentally challenged will fall for it. When that doesn't work, expect the "nasty" version, where our jobs will be threatened, or we'll get locked-out, or the National Guard will be called-in to drive trucks so the economy isn't "disrupted". More will get afraid and tremble at the power of the great and powerful Oz. Here's some reality. FedEx doesn't have enough people to adequately cover their business right now. Couriers are still quitting, even in the midst of a recession because the job and wages suck. There is no future for anyone who is an hourly under the present wage and benefit plans. This has nothing to do with entitlement programs. I'm sure the Tea Bag set will try to paint any changes to the RLA or the RLA exemption as an attack on the Free Market. Whatever. Guess what the biggest entitlements are anyway? Social Security and Medicare, neither of which the conservatives realize [I]are[/I] entitlement programs of which most of these oldsters are the primary beneficiaries. Perhaps they are too stupid to figure it out, so they'll have to wait for Rush and Beck to fill them with the "truth". Sad. [/QUOTE]

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