{"id":2759,"date":"2012-01-23T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T09:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.california-labor-law-attorney.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2012-01-23T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T09:01:35","slug":"working-wrong-delivery-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.california-labor-law-attorney.com\/working-wrong-delivery-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Working for the WRONG Delivery Company?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3470\" title=\"Photo Credit: Shutterstock\/michaeljung\" src=\"https:\/\/www.californialaborlaw.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/michaeljung.jpg\" alt=\"Three retail workers \" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.california-labor-law-attorney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/michaeljung.jpg 3900w, https:\/\/www.california-labor-law-attorney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/michaeljung-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.california-labor-law-attorney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/michaeljung-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.california-labor-law-attorney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/michaeljung-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 7.5pt 0in; text-align: center; line-height: 10.5pt;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">UPS and FedEx go Toe to Toe over Labor Laws or Bailout?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 7.5pt 0in; line-height: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">Things got ugly earlier this year when FedEx created a website labeling a proposed labor law change a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownbailout.com\/#E3Yew3GCSlQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3f658c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">Brown Bailout<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">\u201d&nbsp; for UPS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 7.5pt 0in; line-height: 10.5pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">\u201cWhat were they referring to?\u201d you ask.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 7.5pt 0in; line-height: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">The alleged bailout isn\u2019t really a bailout at all. Our beloved government did not give any actual money to UPS.&nbsp;However, what is happening is that FedEx is potentially being asked to abide by the same labor laws as UPS.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 7.5pt 0in; line-height: 10.5pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">It seems that UPS and FedEx should be held to the same labor regulations, wouldn\u2019t you say?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 7.5pt 0in; line-height: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">Currently, FedEx is organized and characterized as an&nbsp;<strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';\">airline<\/span><\/strong>, and thus held to&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmb.gov\/documents\/rla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3f658c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">The Railway Labor Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">; which requires unions to organize workers in one national group, making it more difficult to strike.&nbsp;UPS, on the other hand, is set up as a&nbsp;<strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';\">trucking company,<\/span><\/strong> which is governed by the&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/about_us\/overview\/national_labor_relations_act.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3f658c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">National Labor Relations Act&nbsp;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">; which allows workers to organize at the local level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 7.5pt 0in; line-height: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">UPS asserts that they are being held to more costly standards than FedEx when it comes to &nbsp;labor laws, and this creates an unfair advantage for FedEx.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 7.5pt 0in; line-height: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">FedEx claims that if this legislation passes they will be unable to purchase 30 more Boeing 777 freighters; a contract totaling <strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';\">$7.7 billion<\/span><\/strong>.&nbsp;Feel free to do your own economic projections.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 7.5pt 0in; line-height: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;\">It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming months. Thus far I have not been able to locate any comments from long time union supporter and current Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis. &nbsp;I would be very interested to hear what she has to say.&nbsp;Please feel free to send me any of her commentary on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Photo Credit: Shutterstock\/michaeljung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPS and FedEx go Toe to Toe over Labor Laws or Bailout? 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