Comments on: Another Shameless FedEx Misdirection Play

By: FedEx 4 Life

FedEx 4 Life — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:21:01 +0000

I agree here. Both companies are spending a lot of money to voice their concerns over this legislation. That’s why PAC, lobbyists and other legalized extortion committees exist today.

UPS picking up the slack? I’d like to see UPS cross another brothers line in a strike. That is a big no-no.

As far as a bailout, that term is debatable, but the bottom line is that UPS built their air express model after FedEx (it was no secret how they operated), failed to get reclassified under the RLA and then switched sides and joined the Teamsters lobbying efforts against FedEx. What do you call that?

By: LRex

LRex — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:59:32 +0000

Does anyone else find it funny that Fedex is complaining about the lobbying money that UPS has spent when the amount that Fedex has spent on lobbying is quite a bit more. The American people need to realize that Fedex is calling this a “bailout” to try to drum up decent. This section of the FAA reauthorization act actually would only allow Fedex employees the right to vote in Unions locally. Fedex has lobbied to keep this excemption for years and now that they would have to actually face their employees having the right to choose yes or no for a Union they are calling this a “bailout”. This is a very misleading campaign and if it ever receives any major attention from the media the public will see that.

By: C.S

C.S — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:15:11 +0000

The extent that Fedex will go to mislead the public is on full display for everyone to see. Now, just imagine how they mislead their own employees.

Here’s my experience with dealing with Fedex. I along with everyone else that hires on with Fedex is told that all couriers reach top pay within 4 years. They start most couriers around $13 or $14 per hour and top pay is around $22 per hour. I’ve been working at Fedex for 7 years and my pay has only gone up by about $2.50 an hour. When one of us asked about their promise about all couriers topping out in 4 years their response is ” if you don’t like it quit”, “fedex didn’t come knocking at your door” or this is the best one yet “Why would you wanna be topped out? If we let you top out then you wouldn’t have anything to look forward to” I hope the Senators will make a fair decision when they finally vote on this issue, because it isn’t just UPS that would like to see this bill pass. The Fedex hourly workers also have an interest in seeing this bill pass.