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* USA - Railway Labor or National Relations Act or: FedEx vs. UPS
FedEx To Mount Campaign Against Bill Viewed As Pro-Union
New York,NY,USA -Dow Jones Newswires/The Wall Street Journal, by Bob Sechler -June 8, 2009: -- FedEx Corp. is launching what it describes as multi-million-dollar campaign to derail proposed federal legislation that would make it easier for the company's workers to unionize... The effort targets chief rival United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) in particular, reiterating FedEx's recent criticism of the bill as a federal bailout for UPS... FedEx spokesman Maury Lane said the campaign is aimed at anyone who ships or receives packages, as well as the general public. FedEx contends approval of the legislation would increase customer costs by as much as 30%... If it becomes law, the legislation would remove FedEx Express drivers from the jurisdiction of the Railway Labor Act and put them under jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act. The change would allow FedEx drivers to organize on a location-by-location basis, rather than be required to hold a national election... "We're an airline that delivers 85% of our packages using aircraft, [and] they're a trucking company that delivers 85% of their parcels using trucks," Lane said. "You can't shoehorn an airline into [a] trucking company's rules and still expect critical packages to arrive within hours on the other side of the country," he said... (Photo from thumbs.dreamstime)
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posted by Unknown @ 4:59 AM
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Mr. Lane quotes inaccurate statistics regarding UPS and Fed Ex air vs ground delivery. According to each companies most recent earnings releases available on their websites, UPS delivered and average of 12.7 million US packages per day and 2.1 million of those were "Air" pacakges (about 16%). Meanwhile, FedEx delivered 6.2 million US packages per day and 2.7 million of those were "Air" packages (about 44%). Of course, Mr. Lane is using only FedEx "Express" packages which is a separate operating entity from FedEx Ground. This separation exists solely to facilitate the use of RLA by FedEx Express. For an accurate comparison between UPS and Fed Ex US operations, the ground packages also need to be included.
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