I'm not pro or non, I'm a fence sitter... but other than union dues, what's the big deal if u have a union at your barn? Is it that fedex refuses to bargain with them? Just askin
I'll respond to your questions while responding to Dick's also....
Fedex is bargaining. That's just it. Why not let it play out and see what's agreed upon?
They're not paying dues. No one does until a contract is ratified. Not one single FedEx driver has paid dues from any of the four centers, which begs the question of why a few drivers are so hard up to have them voted out? What do they stand to gain? What were they promised for their efforts?
FedEx has bargained in good faith the whole time, hence no ULP's being filed for that.
"Why not let it play out and see what's agreed upon?"
Let's see...because after a year of negotiations, all they've managemed to tentatively agree to is 19 "things"...19 things
we already get,
FOR FREE!!! Every healthcare proposal, pension proposal, etc that the union boys have put forward got shot down...
BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO LEVERAGE!!!
Dick - "Why are we hard up to have them voted out?"
Lube - "What's the big deal if you have a union at your barn?"
Again, let's see...since the union was voted in we haven't received one new tractor, not one...road or city!!
We have over a hundred city drivers and we
maybe have only one or two new X vans but even that was out of necessity.
Since being voted in, GSP was made a mini hub and the union allowed the company (because they couldn't stop them) to move 400K pounds of freight per night to be rerouted to GSP to be worked...freight and extra runs that
should be in CLT!!
Since being voted in, the company continues to route freight around CLT...freight and extra runs that
should be in CLT!!
Our city drivers don't get the enhanced vacation wage because it must be negotiated...and since we already know they have
ZERO leverage, they won't be getting it either...unless they're voted out!!
Job security...the union boys claim they provide job security by allowing someone to attend a disciplinary meeting...how'd that work out for you Dick?? We're land locked and busting at the seams but we'll never be rewarded with a new or more centers in CLT as long as the union is here, they'll just keep expanding the surrounding centers and moving the freight around us!!
"What do we stand to gain?"
Everything mentioned above with the exception of our freight being moved to GSP, we'll probably never get that freight back...and we can thank the union boys for that!!
Job security is growing the company, gaining market share, adding new local centers, adding more equipment, adding more drivers which leads to more seniority....not some bozo watching over a disciplinary meeting!!
"What were we promised for our efforts?"
Nothing...unlike the union, the company doesn't make promises!!