Teamsters can represent FedEx workers
September 30, 2006
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that full-time, regular part-time and swing drivers at two Wilmington, Mass., FedEx Home Delivery locations are direct employees under the company's business model and have the right to seek union representation.
The ruling is the seventh time since 1988 that the NLRB has found drivers at FedEx Home Delivery are direct employees despite the company's assertion that they are "independent operators." ...............
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