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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One of the most frustrating aspects of the fight over a field-leveling labor amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill has been FedEx’s blatant efforts to mislead both Members of Congress and the public with disinformation and misinformation – especially its lobbyist’s intellectually dishonest PR campaign to characterize the law change as a “bailout” for UPS.
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I think we can all agree that the American League (AL) and the National League (NL) are each baseball leagues, competing in the same industry. In addition, I think we can all agree that the players in the American League perform the same job as the players in the National League. And the rules of the game in each league are the same, except for….
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That’s the headline in a Bloomberg Businessweek story written yesterday by John Hughes. Some excerpts:
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In a breathless news release last week, FedEx announced that “An overwhelming number of Americans are fed up with special interest legislation designed to benefit corporate America, according to a new public opinion survey” – which FedEx itself (or its lobbyists) appears to have paid for.
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It’s not very often that the deep-thinking conservatives over at the Heritage Foundation end up on the wrong side of a free-market issue, so when they do it’s worth taking a closer look.
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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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