This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend the current FAA funding until August 1, 2010. Below please find a statement from Chuck Muth, President of Citizen Outreach, about the latest extension.
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As the July 3 extension deadline for the FAA reauthorization bill nears, the FedEx disinformation campaign against a provision in the bill closing a loophole that gives the company a “significant advantage” over its competitors has gone super-nova. In an op/ed published by The Hill on June 21, David Branczek, president and CEO of FedEx Express, laments that the FAA bill is in limbo:
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FedEx has resorted to just about every trick in the book – short of hiring a witch doctor to put a voodoo curse on UPS – in its effort protect a loophole in the nation’s labor law that gives the company a huge marketing advantage over its express delivery rivals.
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Christopher Hinton, writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, affirmed the fact that a loophole in the nation’s labor laws tilts the express package delivery market in FedEx’s favor.
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To hear FedEx explain it, the company was formed in 1971 as an airline and, therefore, should continue to be treated as an airline…including its non-airline express delivery ground operations.
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The FedEx “Ministry of Propaganda” was at it again on Tuesday with another misleading Brown Bailout piece distributed by the company’s PR agents and lobbyists. Here’s the main message:
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“FedEx Express claims it is an airline,” the Teamsters press release began on Monday. “So why aren’t flight attendants on the delivery trucks? Because FedEx’s claim is ludicrous – truck drivers aren’t pilots.”
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