This is not a problem. Everyone who says it is lives in a "holler", or in an economically declining area where the residents are leaving. Every slave-waging employer's wet dream lies in the abundantly fertile, indiscriminate loins of future United States residents crossing northbound at our southern border.
I agree! I’ve always said that express will eventually be like ground, It’s Fred’s dream! You don’t hv to worry about the RLA when all you’re employees are contractors!
Name some Express contractors. Tell ‘em to come on here and get acquainted. We sure don’t know them.
You realize if express became ground there would be no service commitment at all. The idea that a express “CONTRACTOR “ could move freight from point A to B in 24 hours would be next to impossible.
Maybe. I believe that ground is going to move as much as it possibly can. Express will be part time work. We had 8 ground trailers moved yesterday at our ramp. We even had our drivers deliver 2 trailers. We’re flying the packages to make the commit time and ground delivers them. It’s really simple and it will eventually happen.
I highly doubt that. They would be risking losing their rla status.
It’s a package Ground is cheap put Ground packages on a plane no one would know or care ,most Express packages never see a plane.
You realize people don’t have part time bills. Part timers are for college kids and semi retired people. Those that aren’t those two are looking for full time work.
That’s true.
You’re living in the past. They will hv full time contractors doing the work. I could also see pay incentives for time commitments made and productivity. They are feeling the pressure to combine the two and they aren’t gonna make ground driver’s employees. They hv slowly chipped away at our benefits for years! You better hv a back up plan, I do
And what's the average stem?
Have you ever been to the Memphis hub? It’s mostly contractors that move freight by truck now. It’s still a few years off, but it’s coming
They don’t care bout people! Just look at the average ground drivis comp
It doesn’t matter that they don’t care , it matters that you can employ people to keep your business successful. Could I hire you for 8 dollars an hour ? Probably not.
Completely violating the RLA agreement probably wouldn’t sit well with those in congress who write employment laws
Does it really matter if a small workforce of part time drivers have the option to unionize station by station? If they move the bulk of deliveries to Ground there won’t be many remaining courier positions at Express.
12-15ish one way.
You're putting me on.... right? Where I am 70 one way is nothing. And if you lucky enough to have a decent 2 lane (no interstate) highway to run those 70 miles on you're a lucky chap. An it's like I told you, in my area I was lucky in one regard in the sense that the stem was 26 miles one way if you went in a straight line. Only trouble that stem had 480 miles of rural carrier miles wrapped around it which went right along with the rest. That's why the engineers couldn't understand the mileage totals. They never factored in the R.D.'s .
Ground contractors- not FEDEX pay all the cost of hiring and training new drivers and buying additional fuel and vehicles if needed for no extra expense to fedex. Just by requiring that packages be delivered after a second sort, fedex dumps the cost on contractors. IF IF IF there is something in the contract that says fedex
Except that if individual ground contractors get big enough, the unions might become interested again. The teamsters were involved way back when terminals only had 10-20 'contractors, while now, if there end up being multiple sorts and dispatches throughout the day, there will be MANY MANY contractors with more than that many drivers.
