UPS Bailout?

[AZRedhawk44]

http://www.brownbailout.com/

I didn't know about this.

Evidently, UPS wants to force FedEx to unionize somehow.  They got some pet legislation slipped into a bill.  If it passes, the FAA will somehow require FedEx to unionize, which I don't quite understand how that works.  I can't find the legislation in question.

[Monkeyleg]

I remember hearing about this last year. FedEx is more cost efficient than UPS because they don't have a unionized workforce.

Government has no business getting in the middle of those two, but Obama will want to reward his union buddies once again.

[Tallpine]

FedEx is more cost efficient than UPS

May be, but their drivers get stuck a lot out here - or else they call up and want to leave your package 20 miles away because they don't want to leave the pavement.

 

[TechMan]

I remember hearing about this last year. FedEx is more cost efficient than UPS because they don't have a unionized workforce.

Government has no business getting in the middle of those two, but Obama will want to reward his union buddies once again.

That is why you will see a hotshot train coming from LA California almost everyday.  UPS found it was cheaper to have BNSF or UP stack all of UPS' trailers  on flatcars and haul them instead of moving the trailers themselves.

[Ben]

I remember hearing about this last year. FedEx is more cost efficient than UPS because they don't have a unionized workforce.

Well, that explains why the fed.gov is switching the shipping contract from FEDEX to UPS when the new fiscal year starts this October.

[Nitrogen]

It's Male Bovine Excrement.

It's a regulatory dispute, nothing more.

basically, the way UPS structured it's business vs how Fedex structured its business means one isunder the National Labor Relations act, and the other is under the RLA which covers railroads and airlines.

UPS feels that the looser regulations under NLRA give Fedex an unfair advantage.  UPS wants Fedex to be covered under the same laws they are, and Fedex wants to keep their status.

Personally, I think they should both be covered either under the NRLA or the RLA, and they should figure out which they both want.

NRLA makes it easier to unionize site by site, while RLA requires it nationally.  Personally, I think the RLA is more appropriate for both of them, but that's just me.