GROUND IS TAKING OVER EXPRESS

[bbsam]

Tank? Nah, just even out the playing field for corporations like FedEx. I believe Obama would have done it had we not been in a recession.

You’re thinking too small. You can’t get at FedEx without hitting Amazon, Uber, Lyft and a million other companies.

 

[59 Dano]

Executive order. Then dragged out for years in courts. We learned from IMPOTUS

No.

 

[bbsam]

Rebalance the economy??

With an executive order? I’ve been preaching to the Trump crazies that a president is not a king. Seems the Bernie crazies just want a king of a different hue. friend that.

 

[MAKAVELI]

You’re thinking too small. You can’t get at FedEx without hitting Amazon, Uber, Lyft and a million other companies.

Sure you can. Removing FedEx's rla status wouldn't affect any one of those other companies.

 

[59 Dano]

Rebalance the economy??

Is it out of balance?

 

[bbsam]

Sure you can. Removing FedEx's rla status wouldn't affect any one of those other companies.

Wouldn’t stop them from moving freight to Ground either. Probably hurry it along.

And are you certain that an executive order can be company specific like that? Would be tied up in court, that’s for sure.

 

[59 Dano]

Sure you can. Removing FedEx's rla status wouldn't affect any one of those other companies.

Express passes the RLA test as applied by NMB/NLRB.

 

[59 Dano]

Wouldn’t stop them from moving freight to Ground either. Probably hurry it along.

And are you certain that an executive order can be company specific like that?

It's a means to an end to some, and in that regard, why not?

 

[bbsam]

It's a means to an end to some, and in that regard, why not?

Because in the short couple minutes I’ve read about it, seems that the order has to be within the presidential powers to begin with. I believe the RLA exemption was a congressional act. But that’s just in simple google search academia. Not really sure the limits.

 

[59 Dano]

Because in the short couple minutes I’ve read about it, seems that the order has to be within the presidential powers to begin with.

It does. I was answering from the perspective of someone who advocated such an act.

I believe the RLA exemption was a congressional act. But that’s just in simple google search academia. Not really sure the limits.

It is. As it applies to this it covers those workers who are directly supervised/controlled by an airline and whose work is integral to the airline. Whether there should be RLA exemptions at all is an argument that's separate from whether Express should be covered under the RLA as it exists now. The former is subject to debate but there is no argument that Express shouldn't be covered under the RLA other than "I don't like it."

 

[Working4the1%]

Where an old white man beat an old white man in a race between two old white men.

DANO FEAR THE BIDEN

 

[Cactus]

I've asked you countless times to apply the government standards to this case and explain how Express wouldn't qualify as an RLA exemption as a result. You refuse to do so. You know as well as I do that Express qualifies.

Qualifies?

As what? As long as Fred greases the politicians with money and favors like he did in 2010 and 1995?

Cost him over $30 million to keep his sweetheart deal in 2010 alone. Is that your definition of "qualifies?"

 

[bbsam]

Qualifies?

What? As long as Fred greases the politicians with money and favors like he did in 2010 and 1995?

Cost him over $30 million to keep his sweetheart deal in 2010 alone. Is that your definition of "qualifies?"

How much did it cost last year?

 

[Cactus]

How much did it cost last year?

Can't give you an exact amount but it cost millions out of hard working employees paychecks. Stagnant wages, no bonuses, takeaways and higher insurance costs etc.

 

[59 Dano]

Can't give you an exact amount but it cost millions out of hard working employees paychecks. Stagnant wages, no bonuses, takeaways and higher insurance costs etc.

Translation: nothing.

 

[Cactus]

Translation: nothing.

Tell THAT to all the hourlies employed by Express.

By the way...you're beyond help.

 

[bbsam]

Can't give you an exact amount but it cost millions out of hard working employees paychecks. Stagnant wages, no bonuses, takeaways and higher insurance costs etc.

So it didn’t really cost Fred a thing?

 

[Cactus]

So it didn’t really cost Fred a thing?

You don't really think it came out his own wallet, do you?

The whole point is would the reauthorization act been passed if Fred just stayed home and didn't wave all that money at politicians? I don't think so.

 

[bbsam]

You don't really think it came out his own wallet, do you?

The whole point is would the reauthorization act been passed if Fred just stayed home and didn't wave all that money at politicians? I don't think so.

Thats what I’m saying. You said it cost him $30 million. Apparently it cost Express employees that much.

 

[59 Dano]

You don't really think it came out his own wallet, do you?

It's easy to look at an expenditure and rationalize that, if not for that expenditure, you'd have more of something else.

The whole point is would the reauthorization act been passed if Fred just stayed home and didn't wave all that money at politicians? I don't think so.

You seem to forget that Fred's waving of money at politicians was in response to UPS waving money at politicians to gain a reclassification of Express employees.