Posted on 09/16/2022 12:44:13 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Do your Christmas shopping now, while you still have the money, it’s still worth something, there is still stuff to buy , and it can still be shipped.
“FedEx stock is way down.”
Did it fall after they announced they wouldn’t be shipping guns any more? Or was it already in trouble before that?
Reality caught up with them. No more pretending.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/09/16/the-great-economic-pretending-yet-again-meets-main-street-reality/#more-237759
and union contracts are usually indexed to minwage
Amen to that.
It was 1987 or so. They settled with their union because FEDEX was lurking out there. and customers were preparing for it. Once you lose them it’s hard to come back.
Share the wealth.
These folks work their arses off.
Give ‘em preferred voting stock.
What you thought I was talking about cash?
or shiitey common stock?
Give ‘em a piece of the pie.
Watch and see how “Owner” & “Boss” help improve and keep good service.
I was disappointed the rail strike didn’t happen. Now the Biden era looks calm again. Notice his approval is again going up.
Maybe the UPS strike can slow down the economy and ruin Biden and his midterm minions. The American people must go through suffering for what they did in voting in the Dems or even for allowing the rigged election without revolt. They can repent.
This should help FedEx.
That’s a silly conflation. He can only deliver what the company will ship, and he doesn’t decide what they will or won’t ship.
Can’t win either way. Fedex was one of the top contributors to the Obama campaigns in 2004 and 2008.
We are in crisis and unions want to exploit it, they always do, even during wars.
“Throughout 1941 the determination of unions to expand their respective organizations and to improve wages triggered hundreds of strikes. Led by the CIO, whose members constituted 70 percent of the total number of strikers, 2.36 million workers conducted work stoppages that year. Around 4,200 strikes represented one of the highest annual strike counts in American history. The huge 1941 strike wave featured a conflict at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California, which threatened to slow down President Roosevelt’s defense efforts.
A walkout by 4,000 workers occurred in June 1941 at the North American Aviation plant.”
“In 1942 there were only 2,970 work stoppages involving 840,000 workers, down drastically from the 4,200 strikes involving 2.36 million workers in 1941. By 1943 the number of strikes rose to over 3,700, with 1.98 million workers participating, and another 2 million workers engaged in some 5,000 strikes in 1944. A total of 3.5 million workers struck in 1945. In total, some 14,000 strikes and around 8.32 million workers (about a fourth of the workforce) struck during the four war years.”
I needed to ship an item a couple of years ago.
Fairly big box—60+ #—saddle & other tack.
UPS wanted over $160.
Fed Ex did it for less than $ 70
The corporation logs $13 billion in operating income and it's the unions that are bloated?
My error - I thought it was USPS, not UPS
Empty statistic.
Against overhead cost of?
Well cut your work force by 50% and I imagine your overhead costs would decline dramatically. Go for it.
The Teamster union at UPS is just posturing on its demands in the upcoming contract, but usually ends up giving in to mostly what the company offers.
Working in and driving the package cars, the medium size brown vans, is tough, hot in summer, cod in winter and jumping in and out is hard on knees and hips. They have to carry up to 80 pounds and that is hard on your back. All the trucks have GPS and the supervisor calls if you take too long to take a dump or the truck isn’t moving. If you have an accident that’s your fault, you may get fired.
I will say those UPS boys and girls are in shape.
But like you said, my current delivery guy in his 50s is physically out of gas and his knees are bad.
Wait. Isn’t UPS employee owned? They are striking because they didn’t give themselves enough benefits?
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