Fact: More than 65% of the employees covered under the Railway Labor Act are organized, so the RLA does not prevent union organizing.
Fact: There has been a national attempt to organize FedEx Express employees covered under the Railway Labor Act for more than a decade.
Fact: FedEx Express employees nationally have rejected joining the union.
Fact: Both federal regulators and the Courts agree that FedEx Express is properly covered under the Railway Labor Act.
Fact: Now UPS has a better idea - change the law, so Fed Ex Express is thrown into a different labor system - that treating this airline like a trucking company.
Fact: The reason the Railway Labor Act exists is to prevent local unions from disrupting an entire company's capacity to deliver services to the consumer.
Fact: This potential disruption of service is UPS' goal in pushing this change in their competitor's legal status so they can benefit from a weakened competitor and increased prices to the consumer.
Fact: UPS chose a trucking business model that put their air package delivery system into the National Labor Relations Act, and FedEx Express chose an airline business model that put them into the Railway Labor Act. Now, UPS is complaining that their previous business choice puts them at a competitive disadvantage, and they need the playing field "leveled", asking Congress to legislatively impose the strategic mistake they made on their competitor.
Fact: 81% of voters reject the notion that Congress should make changes to the package delivery system since the system is not broken.