An accident of history places Federal Express and UPS under different federal laws governing labor relations. UPS is under the National Labor Relations Act while FedEx is under the Railway Labor Act, which is slightly more forgiving in enabling one to resist a unions’ organizing campaign.\u00a0 A bill in Congress is looking to level the playing field by allowing UPS to also be governed by the RLA.\u00a0 Just kidding; could you imagine a Democratic Congress doing such a thing?<\/p>\n
Of course, the Democrats in Congress, aka, the other union employees, are trying to pull FedEx under the NLRA.\u00a0 It’s easy to see why UPS would be lobbying hard for such a change.\u00a0 They know that they are at a tremendous competitive disadvantage with their unionized work force versus the largely non-union FedEx.\u00a0 One can also see why the Teamsters union would favor a shift that would make it easier to win a cut of a new, large employer’s payroll.<\/p>\n
The House bill would place some of FedEx’s drivers and other employees under the National Labor Relations Act, allowing employees to organize locally. UPS drivers are governed by that law. The Teamsters union has said the bill would ensure fairness across the industry.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Fairness?\u00a0 The union’s argument here is a tacit admission that competition is important, and that the union undermines competitiveness.\u00a0 “It’s only fair that we have a chance to degrade the other guy’s operations to the same level we have done with those companies that we already work for.”<\/p>\n
The Senators from FedEx’s home state of Tennessee are set to prevent this change with the threat of a filibuster.\u00a0 The Teamsters should have sold their charms with a more compelling pitch than “share the poison.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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