UPS trying to get themselves & FedEx out from RLA and under NLRA instead?

[Motown]

What is this?

http://www.brownbailout.com/buried-bailout/a-common-sense-case-for-the-rla/

This website is obviously against the idea, but what IS the idea? If I understand this, it is an attempt to move UPS out from under the RLA, and to take FedEx out with them?

On the surface, it sounds like a good idea to me... take off the RLA handcuffs and allow us to fight for better work conditions. Maybe this can snowball? First UPS and FedEx, then the rest of us?

I'm surprised I haven't seen this topic discussed here... did I just miss it, or is it not as potentially important as it seems to me?

 

[Mr Wu]

Looks like it's from Fedex management. Buried at the bottom of the page...

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[Motown]

Looks like it's from Fedex management. Buried at the bottom of the page...

You're right; I missed that. Frankly, the tone of the website sounded like that, too, so I'm not surprised.

So, if FedEx management really want to defeat this proposal, are the FedEx pilots in support of it? Is ALPA in support of it? Does this proposal have any chance of passing? Has anybody read the actual 230-word attachment to the FAA Reauthorization Bill that FedEx mgt seems so eager to defeat? What does this mean for the rest of us in the 121-passenger world?

 

[FO 4 Life]

UPS is under NLRA and FedEx is under RLA. UPS is lobbying to get FedEx put under NLRA so their workers can unionize easier.

 

[Dizel8]

I think it actually have to do with the truck drivers, read some blurb about it somewhere,although don't remember the gist of it.

 

[Motown]

Are the UPS pilots under the NLRA, too, or are they under the RLA?

If this is just about truck drivers then I apologize. I thought they were talking about pilots.

 

[HoursHore]

The FDX Pilots would still be under the RLA, as the brown pilots are now. UPS is trying to get our drivers at FedEx Express under the NLRA instead of the RLA so they can unionize individual stations intsead of having to get the entire nationwide group to vote yes.

The current difference in rules comes from the fact that UPS is a trucking company with airplanes and FDX is an airline with trucks.

 

[Raoul Duke]

UPS started as a trucking company that added an airfreight operation. They have always been under the NLRB. FedEx started as an airfreight operation that added trucking and have always been under the RLA. Not much chance of pushing FedEx out of the RLA - the airline operation is a totally separate entity.