FedEx: A Truck Driver is a Truck Driver, Not a Pilot
Check out Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa’s op-ed in “The Hill,” laying out the facts that FedEx Express drivers aren’t pilots.
“FedEx Express insists on telling Congress that it’s an airline,” Hoffa writes. “That’s quite a pronouncement for a company that employs more than 90,000 truck drivers, sorters, loaders and unloaders who don’t even touch an airplane. FedEx has 13,000 more truck drivers than UPS, according to the U.S. Transportation Department. And FedEx trucks log about 165 million more miles a year than UPS trucks.”
FedEx is trying to preserve a special loophole it won from politicians in 1996 that allows FedEx Express to be covered by a labor law that applies to only airlines and railroads.
So even though FedEx Express drivers pick up and drop off packages exactly the same way as every other delivery driver in the United States, they are essentially treated like airline pilots under labor law.
FedEx CEO Fred Smith is bullying Congress and trying to block important airline safety legislation to preserve his company’s special status.
Go to www.FedExDriversArentPilots.com to get the facts.
It’s time to level the playing field. Tell Congress to close the FedEx loophole.
In Solidarity,
Local 210-EWR