[Road Warrior ‘04]

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.

[muawiyah]

What you heard is that Fed-Ex wants to get out of the Parcel Processing and Delivery Business. They became an Express and Baggage airline some time back, like that part of the business, and want to simply "contract out" handling and delivery to other organizations.

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.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“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.

[vetvetdoug]

Fred Smith thought up the successful business model for FEDEX and in his original premise unions were not a part of the SUCCESSFUL business. Unions will be the death knell for FEDEX.