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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 5196851" data-attributes="member: 12508">Sorry, but even &quot;normal&quot; conversations are screened out, and you are definitely afraid of me. It&#039;s your job to patrol social media, and I threaten the disinformation machine. To floriday&#039;s point: The RLA dates from 1934, when air express didn&#039;t even exist. It is labor law designed for a time when railroads were the primary mode of transportation and &quot;express&quot; services were via the Railway Express Agency, dead for about 30 years. So, yes, it&#039;s outdated, and doesn&#039;t apply to today&#039;s commerce. The RLA is really Fred&#039;s magic shield because even though you might get strong union support in Blue states and urban areas, Red states with their RTW laws will kill the effort. With the RLA it&#039;s all or nothing. You can&#039;t have a union terminal in LA and a non-union one somewhere else.Fred &amp; Friends (read Congress) absolutely know this and FedEx will funnel millions into preserving the RLA through compliant politicians on both sides of the political aisle. And sorry, Republicans, but killing organized labor is part and parcel of the GOP platform.FedEx &quot;Express&quot; is now a hybrid operation, as is Ground. That puts the entire equation into question because Fred cannot claim that FedEx is an &quot;airline&quot; when the air component isn&#039;t the primary sector of the company, which is now overwhelmingly TRUCKS and even rail. Look how many Ground trailers (which might have Express inside) run on hot intermodal trains. The vast majority of FedEx ops have zero to do with aircraft, and Fred can continue to use airport identifiers all he wants for remote locations where the airport may have even been torn-up 20 years ago. It&#039;s all BS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 5196851, member: 12508"] Sorry, but even "normal" conversations are screened out, and you are definitely afraid of me. It's your job to patrol social media, and I threaten the disinformation machine. To floriday's point: The RLA dates from 1934, when air express didn't even exist. It is labor law designed for a time when railroads were the primary mode of transportation and "express" services were via the Railway Express Agency, dead for about 30 years. So, yes, it's outdated, and doesn't apply to today's commerce. The RLA is really Fred's magic shield because even though you might get strong union support in Blue states and urban areas, Red states with their RTW laws will kill the effort. With the RLA it's all or nothing. You can't have a union terminal in LA and a non-union one somewhere else. Fred & Friends (read Congress) absolutely know this and FedEx will funnel millions into preserving the RLA through compliant politicians on both sides of the political aisle. And sorry, Republicans, but killing organized labor is part and parcel of the GOP platform. FedEx "Express" is now a hybrid operation, as is Ground. That puts the entire equation into question because Fred cannot claim that FedEx is an "airline" when the air component isn't the primary sector of the company, which is now overwhelmingly TRUCKS and even rail. Look how many Ground trailers (which might have Express inside) run on hot intermodal trains. The vast majority of FedEx ops have zero to do with aircraft, and Fred can continue to use airport identifiers all he wants for remote locations where the airport may have even been torn-up 20 years ago. It's all BS. [/QUOTE]

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