Tuesday, October 28, 2014


Bring the Teamsters to Fed Ex Freight
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This flyer was put out in NHS on Monday 10-27. Well I don’t understand why Fed Ex can’t grasp the concept of we don’t want to change the way they operate their system. The system works fine. It was originally set up by American Freightwa... See More
Photo: This flyer was put out in NHS on Monday 10-27. Well I don’t understand why Fed Ex can’t grasp the concept of we don’t want to change the way they operate their system. The system works fine. It was originally set up by American Freightways and Sheridan Garrison. What we want has been discussed, argued, presented in many forms and it’s not to change the way the company operates its freight movement. I guess when you can’t discuss what the real issues are you have to go for the extreme scenarios to again, try to persuade the uninformed with a whole lot of nothing. If you look in the bottom section of this flyer under the management rights clause, it states; “the right to hire, suspend or discharge for proper causes.” The key term here is PROPER CAUSES, that means they have to have cause to discharge you. Of course they left out the grievance process and how it works in this actual Teamster contract. Right now, we here in Pennsylvania are under an “AT WILL” state law. That means Fed Ex or any other company in the commonwealth can (and I love this word) discharge you for any reason what-so-ever. They can tell you, “you are wearing the wrong color socks and you are fired.” Would they do that? I don’t know, but they can. Once there is a contract we go from an “AT WILL” state to a “JUST CAUSE” contract. That takes power away from them and shifts it to us with a grievance process. This is what scares them the most, the loss of power. Let’s have “JUST CAUSE” VOTE “YES” ON FRIDAY

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