UPS released the following statement on Friday addressing the Politico story last week about FedEx “ratting out” the American Conservative Union (ACU) over a mistaken belief that the ACU had changed its position on the amendment of a bill FedEx is trying to kill that would place its drivers under the same labor law as UPS’s drivers. The UPS statement:

UPS Statement in Response to Politico.com Article:

On July 15, a group of seven organizations wrote to FedEx Chairman Fred Smith, objecting to FedEx’s tactics in attacking UPS over a proposed amendment to U.S. labor law. UPS has not paid or contracted with any signers of the letter, including the American Conservative Union, to obtain their support on this issue. Any suggestion that UPS has done so is false.

FedEx’s assertion that UPS would engage in this type of activity is another example of its overly aggressive efforts to distort the facts. It is FedEx that unfairly receives special treatment and UPS believes that employees performing the same work should be covered by the same labor law.