Thanks for the clarification, but I thought Congress passed a bill last year stipulating that air express companies such as Fed Ex would have to be organized nationally. As I recall, it was a provision tucked into some other bill, which Clinton signed. Does anybody know what bill that was? -- Jim Cullen >Not to be too picky, but in the description below of the fact that the >Teamsters are forced to organize FedEx employees nationally rather than >location by location, the author describes this as a consequence of a "new >law." Hardly so. This is a requirement contained in the Railway Labor Act >of 1926. As I understand the facts, the Teamsters had claimed that FedEx >employees were covered under the NLRA (1935), which would have allowed >organizing site by site or at least community by community. FedEx claimed >their workers were covered by the RLA (which includes airline employees). >After hearings and legal appeals, the government in its wisdom decided to >apply the RLA rather than the NLRA, thus compelling the Teamsters to conduct >their organizing drive on nationwide basis in a single bargaining unit, >which is what they are now doing. UPS drivers have been enlisted as >volunteer organizers, since they often cross paths with FedEx drivers in the >course of their work. > >In solidarity, >Michael > > (the rest deleted) ---------------------------------------- THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST James M. Cullen, Editor P.O. Box 150517, Austin, Texas 78715-0517 Phone: 512-447-0455 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://www.eden.com/~reporter ----------------------------------------
