Why is it that defenders of the Big Labor agenda never seem to engage in honest, straightforward, factual debate?<\/p>\n
Washington Post<\/em> columnist Harold Myerson provides the latest illustration<\/a> in his commentary today.\u00a0 Myerson carries Big Labor’s water by arguing that FedEx, which is a longtime target of Big Labor’s ire due to its failure to capitulate to union campaigns, should be regulated in the same way as more heavily-unionized UPS.\u00a0 UPS falls under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), whereas FedEx falls under the Railway Labor Act (RLA).<\/p>\n And for very good reason.<\/p>\n Approximately 85% of FedEx parcels are shipped by air, whereas UPS delivers 85% of its packages locally via truck.\u00a0\u00a0 That makes FedEx subject to the RLA, and UPS to the NLRA, which Congress specifically determined.\u00a0 But Myerson, unsurprisingly, avoids mentioning this critical distinction in his column.\u00a0 As one predictable consequence of UPS’s NLRA classification, it was brutalized by a costly 1997 strike.\u00a0 So now, UPS, Congressional liberals and Big Labor seek to cripple FedEx<\/a> by shoehorning it into the same classification as UPS.<\/p>\n UPS seems to follow the adage “if you can’t beat ’em, unionize ’em,” but it would be nice if Big Labor and its apologists could at least argue honestly once in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why is it that defenders of the Big Labor agenda never seem to engage in honest, straightforward, factual debate? Washington Post columnist Harold Myerson provides the latest illustration in his commentary today.\u00a0 Myerson carries Big Labor’s water by arguing that FedEx, which is a longtime target of Big Labor’s ire due to its failure to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[911,1179,1178,1186,1185,1184,1183,1182,1051,1181,1180],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-labor","tag-federal-express","tag-fedex","tag-labor","tag-national-labor-relations-act","tag-nlra","tag-railway-labor-act","tag-rla","tag-union","tag-united-parcel-service","tag-ups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}