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Posted on 06/09/2009 9:24:53 AM PDT by La Lydia
FedEx Express is learning what could be the Democrats' economic motto -- "Never Let Success Go Unpunished."
Led by Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minnesota), the House on May 21 passed legislation that contains a hidden provision -- a mere 230 words -- that would hobble FedEx Express by completely changing the labor laws under which the company operates. Unless the Senate removes the language from the bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, a mere dozen or so workers in just one city could hamstring much of the nation's overnight delivery service.
Americans take for granted that things can "absolutely, positively ... be there overnight" -- but it took FedEx Express to make that so. FedEx Express is, of course, one of the great corporate success stories of modern times, having grown from a mere idea in a 1965 term paper by Yale undergraduate Frederick W. Smith into a company essential to the workings of our modern economy.
It is a little-known fact that FedEx contracts with the U.S. Postal Service to carry almost all of its Express Mail and a large proportion of Priority Mail. FedEx delivers huge amounts of needed supplies for American military forces, and its service is just about the only way to guarantee that some lifesaving medicines reach patients overnight...
...The UPS corporate political action committee has "given more money to federal lawmakers than any other company over two decades,"...The Teamsters, who lean heavily Democratic, have donated $86,500 to Mr. Oberstar during that period...
UPS trying to squash FedEx Express is like Goliath sitting on David...With the economy so shaky, this is the worst time for Congress to change the rules governing such an important facet of interstate commerce. The old wisdom should apply still: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
And another reason Big Government should stay the H*ll out of the Private Sector.
Federal government wisdom: It is works, break it and fix it at taxpayer expense.
That’s a great quote! I need a bumper sticker that says that.
Your notion is predicated upon this still being a Constitutional Republic. But in reality this nation has been transformed into a federal oligarchy run by the democrap party and their affirmative action figure fraud-in-chief, and the subpreme Roberts court has placed their stamp of approval uopn it all.
I.
Detest.
Unions.
Definition:
US Congress and Senate: A place where those who have no discernible talents or morals and are otherwise unemployable go to work.
The worker vote on unionization at FedEx is currently a nationwide vote as required by current law.
The Dems want to change this law by having another Federal agency for oversight. Then "local", rather than national, rules would applied to the voting process.
It appears that Obama’s primary economic intention is to either directly control the private sector or to render it utterly dependent on Washington. Are these some of the jobs he will have “saved or created”?
If I recall, the president or head guy at FEDEX said he’d close the company before he’d allow a union in. I might be wrong. If I am, please correct my posting.
Congress is a hideout where thieves and others of low character convene for the purpose of getting their stories straight, splitting up the take, and planning future heists.
Then we need to work to reverse this trend. This is not a legacy to leave to those not yet born.
Bas-turds. I like FedEx. They bring me nice things, lol. My credit card company says so.
Actually, the article makes that clear. What doesn’t make it clear is the shortened version that I had to post by virtue of our 300-word limit.
Ping
Ah, the OBAMA / CHICAGO / DALEY / MOBSTER machine arrives on the national scene...
There can only be one true “Brown Shirt” organization. (Shorts optional)
This has nothing to do with unionization, per se. It has everything to do with predatory anti-trust activities!
The Obama regime will probably not do anything about the anti-trust violations.
“We” are now in the minority and the democrap party is spending tax money ($8 billion so far in the past ten months) to strengthen the vote fraud and falsification of census through ACORN and subsidiaries. I’m afraid, short of using the left’s techniques (criminal methodology), it is already too late to stop the affirmative action figure’s brand of democrat Marxism.
I think the UPS ambition here is to FORCE Fed-Ex to contract out processing and delivery to THEM rather than to other private operators, or to the Postal Service.
“Washington is where good ideas go to die”
-Ronald Reagan
I use FedEx here at work for the bulk of my shipping. I really like their service - much better than UPS, who would damage many of the packages I sent out.
If FedEx goes bust, I’m going to be pissed.
Detest.
Unions.
Me.
Too!
and add to that the rats to enable them. the unions destroyed a business we had for many years - they're a bunch of crooks. literally.
I wouldn’t even refer to the Teamsters as an albatross around UPS’ neck. It’s an albatross around the workers’ necks. I worked there. This sounds like the Equalization of Opportunity Act in Atlas Shrugged.
What a surprise! A quick search shows Fred Smith’s $upporting republicans, with only a couple of dems here and there. In the very near future, in order to do business, work, obtain groceries, living space, cars, tvs, schooling medical care, etc, we will have to belong to Obama’s party AND be in good $tanding. Remember how it was in the USSR? Now it’s coming to us.
“If I recall, the president or head guy at FEDEX said he’d close the company before he’d allow a union in. I might be wrong. If I am, please correct my posting.”
Quite frankly I think the Dems would be fine with that outcome. More for the Teamsters at UPS and Federal Postal Workers.
The Obama administration single largest special interest is the unions. Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.
See dissident Michael Voslenski's, "Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class"
I operate a small trucking company. The slowdown in business causes me to go outside my usual customer base. There’s usually a load somewhere that needs to be hauled. But the rates have hit rock bottom. Usually you wait until that load hits urgency and the rates go up to a reasonable level.
Recently, YRC, the larger unionized firm, has started moving those loads. Also, they requested a $1B ‘bailout’. If you don’t care about making money due to government intervention, I guess it wouldn’t matter what the freight rate was as long as your drivers were doing something. I can’t afford to pay drivers that aren’t hauling something but apparently with government help, they can.
I’m feeling the squeeze.....
I guess that explains why my online order, shipped Priority Mail late in the day on June 4 from New Mexico, arrived on June 6 in New Hampshire.
Rush Limbaugh is talking about this article right now.
Yes he is. And Rush has just rementioned that Fred Smith said if Card Check goes into law, it will destroy his business.
Elections have consequences.
Action item for today: Contact all our vendors who’ve been using our UPS account and tell them to switch to FedEx.
The reason that our Congress will do nothing is they all have so much dirt and corruption baggage that they can no longer speak out for what is right.
Where are the Republicans?
Talk about gridlock. The only way to clean this mess up is get rid of all of them and start over, shorten their terms.
“I’m afraid, short of using the left’s techniques (criminal methodology), it is already too late to stop the affirmative action figure’s brand of democrat Marxism.”
It’s never too late.
Three stages to regaining our liberty:
Soap Box
Ballot Box
Ammo Box
Right now, we’re using the Soap Box (Tea Parties).
In 2010, and again in 2012 we’ll try using the Ballot Box, but if the demoncraps succeed in rigging the election, then it’s time to lock and load and use the Ammo Box.
Sadly, the way things are turning out, I predict that we’ll be in an all out civil war within the next 5 years.
Obama is doing his best to drive up the cost of doing business again I see....
Our society/nation has become too complex to overthrow a corrupt governemtn is the ballot box is under their control. And the majority of the sheeple are so dumbed down on bread and circuses that they will swallow any koolaid fed to them by the fifth column enemedia. I'm afraid the third option/stage is no longer a possible solution. The Constitutional Republic died not with a bang but a whimper, as the Roberts court put a final poison-tipped nail into the Constitutional contract, allowing the federal oligarchy to take full blossom with the affirmative action figure fraud-in-chief.
Amen to that. Incumbency is the root of all evils in Washinton.
good old Bass-turd Jimmy Bikeshorts (aka James Ubertard)...at it again.
we’re soooo proud here in MN(sarc)
*sigh*
When is this going to end?
It is time for “We The People”, to rise up and take back our country from those who seek to flush it down the toilet. For too long we have allowed career politicians to ruin our country and erode our God given rights in the name of getting re-elected in order to pay back the special interest groups and the unions that support them. Every politician who has served more than two terms needs to be thrown out of office and banned for life from holding any other elected or appointed office in the public sector.
“We The People” are the ones who tell the government what to do, the government doesn't tell us.
Excellent post. Maybe you could send it to Obama and those turds on Capitol Hill. They have very obviously forgotten that.
Thanks.
It was part of a reply I sent to my local news paper after they ran an op-ed that whined about military spending. The guy was saying that military spending could be better used to provide healthcare for everyone, bail out people caught in the mortgage mess, and make “green” jobs.
My full reply is at the bottom of my profile.
“It is time for “We The People”, to rise up and take back our country from those who seek to flush it down the toilet. For too long we have allowed career politicians to ruin our country and erode our God given rights in the name of getting re-elected in order to pay back the special interest groups and the unions that support them. Every politician who has served more than two terms needs to be thrown out of office and banned for life from holding any other elected or appointed office in the public sector.
“We The People” are the ones who tell the government what to do, the government doesn’t tell us. “
Hear, hear!
Fred Smith is a wise businessman and is also ex-military. He has been a very successful at keeping the union out of Fedex Express. I do not believe he will surrender easily to tactics or pressure.
You can pick any 300 words from the article. :)
Sorry. My bad. Next time I will get you to cut it for me so it passes muster. I mistakenly assumed too much knowledge on the part of FR readers. :>
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