Columnist Harold Meyerson inked the following op/ed which was published in the Washington Post on Wednesday. While we disagree that this debate is over the “right to organize” – our position is that this is an issue of equal protection under the law – many of Mr. Meyerson’s points are spot on and in line with what we’ve been saying for almost a year now….
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The Commercial Appeal – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services today
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A running line of argument in the multi-million dollar FedEx PR and lobbying campaign against an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill which would place FedEx Express drivers under the same federal labor law as every other delivery driver in the nation is that its chief competitor, UPS, did something “sneaky” to get the amendment in the bill.

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The Teamsters released yesterday a new web video humorously making the point that FedEx drivers, despite what company executives seem to believe, aren’t pilots. Catch it HERE

In a “Review & Outlook” editorial published April 26, 2010, the Wall Street Journal characterized an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill which would place FedEx Express drivers under the same set of labor laws as every other package delivery driver in the nation as a “union bailout.” We respectfully disagree.
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In a recent Washington Times/FedEx editorial, the paper warned ominously that if a provision in the FAA reauthorization bill which would place FedEx Express drivers under the same labor law, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), as every other driver in the nation, “The result could be that a dozen workers in just one key city could, by striking, ground FedEx Express to a virtual halt nationwide.”

Hardly. Here’s the reality.
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In an interview following last week’s Memphis Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander is quoted in the Commercial Appeal as saying the following about an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill which would move FedEx Express delivery drivers under the same labor law as every other express delivery driver in the nation:
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The question of whether or not FedEx Express drivers are essential to the operation of FedEx’s air operations or merely a part of FedEx’s overall delivery operations is at the heart of the debate over an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill which would move the company’s drivers under the same labor law as every other driver in the nation.
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In a Washington Times editorial last month, the paper inked the following:
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