{"id":2656,"date":"2009-03-24T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2009-03-24T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T17:22:53","slug":"when-it-absolutely-positively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/03\/24\/when-it-absolutely-positively\/","title":{"rendered":"When It Absolutely, Positively . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/mar\/24\/10-billion-threat-fedex-warns-lawmakers-over-union\/\">has to be done FedEx&#8217;s way<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FedEx could cancel contracts for $10 billion in American-made planes if Congress makes it easier for unions to organize the delivery giant&#8217;s workers.<\/p>\n<p>In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the Memphis-based company disclosed that purchases of Boeing 777s are contingent on FedEx Express&#8217; continued coverage by the National Railway Labor Act.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure serves as a warning shot to lawmakers seeking to put FedEx Express workers under the National Labor Relations Act, a move seen as helping the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Under the Railway Labor Act, a union like the Teamsters would have to organize FedEx Express employees nationally, rather than in local bargaining units. Drivers for FedEx&#8217;s chief domestic competitor, UPS, are largely represented by the Teamsters, but FedEx has fended off organizing attempts for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>has to be done FedEx&#8217;s way: FedEx could cancel contracts for $10 billion in American-made planes if Congress makes it easier for unions to organize the delivery giant&#8217;s workers. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the Memphis-based company disclosed that purchases of Boeing 777s are contingent on FedEx Express&#8217; continued coverage by the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[156,41,492,497],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","tag-fedex","tag-labor","tag-law","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}