“The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s support in a bitter legislative dispute, then the group’s chairman flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay,” according to Politico.com.
What a bunch of whores! This is the group run by Grover Norquist. By backing UPS they are taking the union side of this equation. UPS is trying to use the government to screw their competitor, Fed Ex. This is a brown bailout!
Do conservative Republicans stand for anything anymore? Fed Ex already has a union deal. The UPS Brown Bailout would force them to negotiate separate union pacts everywhere they do business. There is no good reason to do that to Fed Ex!
“For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors. (Note that Mr. Keene writes a weekly column that appears in The Hill.)”
Doesn’t that remind you of Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham using his Red County blog to pimp for candidates who have him on their payroll? In the most recent example of this U.S. Rep. John Campbell made Jerbal his paid twit. Jerbal was hired to post on Twitter for Campbell. And, as Steven Greenhut has pointed out, Red County has become an advertisement for Campbell.
Jerbal also wrote an op-ed in the O.C. Register this week slamming a plastic bag tax. I still don’t know if he got paid to write that by the Plastic Bag Association, but you have to wonder…
Republicans = Greedy Unethical Hypocritical Losers!
Seems to me that both companies do the same job. Saying they don’t is like saying Viagra is TOTALLY different from Cialis because one pill is blue and the other is orange.(?) So the two companies should fall under the same set of laws – all of them. Labor too. Be it RLA, NLRA or WTF, is doesn’t matter. The truth of the matter is that both sets of labor laws are woefully outdated and should be scrapped with one set of rules written, applicable to the entire industry. Whether or not you agree with what UPS is attempting to do and how, using the word “bailout” is unethical communication and FedEx chose that word for the sole purpose of misleading the public into believing that UPS was indeed seeking taxpayer dollars. Repeating it in coverage of this story in any manner other than a direct quote is irresponsible journalism because it only feeds the swell of misinformation.
It is NOT a “Bailout” it is just Fedex public relations at work….they are not a railroad and get away with cheating by claiming to be one Plain and simple….no bailout….they ship and run trucks and planes just like the other carriers nor cry like babies when told they have to COMPETE and LIE to the public ..!!
Education:
FedEx is made up of 10 different operating companies; Express, Ground, Smartpost, Freight, National LTL, Custom Critical, Trade Networks, Services, Corporate, and Office.
This legislation is targeted solely at the Express division which is and was formed as an airline. All of the others are already governed by the NLRA and are fine with that. The Express division means that each and every package and peice of freight is transported via Airplane to its final destination. UPS has the vast majority of its packages delivered soley by a truck and do not differentiate their parcel delivery systems. With FedEx, each operating company has completely seperate operations, facilities, management and thats why each has different advantages and disadvantages. As far as union and non union groups, the Express division already has two unions in it’s midst, the pilots and mechanics, so its not about making the company union. What this is really about is the Teamsters, which represent UPS, needing additional membership because their pension fund is completely insolvent and you have hundreds of thousands of pensioners who will need those fresh contributions to keep it afloat. That is why it is being called a bailout, because the teamsters need fedex to bail them out and keep the union racket alive. FedEx has been rated by fortune magazine as one of the top 100 places to work, i think like 11 out of the last 13 years, all of the other operating companies that can already be pentrated by the Teamsters and other unions have not gone union because they are happy enough and dont feel that a union is needed to increase the benefits or workplace environment. The potential for work stoppage will make the entire economy stifle because if FedEx Express and UPS were to both go on strike as members of the same union. People would have no other option to ship a package outside of the postal service or a highly paid courier service. DHL is gone, Airborne Express and other smaller parcel carriers are gone, there are only two companies in the US that can offer time definite delivery of goods which are essential to the economy of the US, and with both of them refusing to work, it would cause incredible damage. Do you really want a bunch of greedy, corrrupt unions and Jimmy Hoffa Jr to have that much power over the economy? I sure dont!