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[BARRONS.com: Stocks To Watch Today] The package-delivery giant long has been regarded as a proxy for the overall economy. Whether producers are manufacturing it, or consumers are buying it, somebody has to traffic it.
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[Daily Market Commentary - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com] Barrons.com: Stocks To Watch Today - FedEx Equals The Economy ...: And since the USPS doesn t report quarterly, lots of folks look at FedEx as the standard-bearer. At a Glance FedEx (FDX) Sources: Barron's Online, Thomson Reuters And the outlook for FedEx seemed pretty straightforward: the economy...
[BARRONS.com: Stocks To Watch Today] FedEx Faces Higher Unionization Risk Via Legislative Proposal ...: salary compared to fedexes,the top 5 at fedex raked in 31 million with fred smith taking almost 11 million himself, mike eskew when he was ceo at ups made 5 million.The teamsters kept this in check and rewarded the workers withe wages and benefits that exceeds fedexes, UPS employees have been paid well for a long time because the drivers did the work to make the company money and the teamsters made sure the wealth trickled down.All unions are not bad sure there was aperiod when corruption was bad, but today there is too much a stake for that to happen. As far as ups is concerned as far as a strike is concerned its not going to happen again because we got lucky in 1997 because fedex and rps was not prepared and our last 2 contracts were both agreed on a yr in advanced.Now today i do believe unions are making a comeback and the reason is corporate and wall street greed and until companies top brass start spreadin the wealth to the employees instead of cutting their benefits and fatting their own pockets the unions are going to grow bigger.So before u complain about u should see what they can offer you,my family and myself are blessed with the compensation i get and the only thing i pay is $71 a month for health care i don’t have to pay for, a pension, 401k and stock.You are enititled to your opion and its your choice and the choice u as an american have earned that right.
[Nature Network Blog Posts] Fed-Ex...A People Company? - A Meandering Scholar - Ian Brooks ...: I think there are a lot of reasons underlying this toxic combination, not least the gradual infantilization of culture which rewards instant gratification in adults as well as children (why save up when you can have whatever you want, right now?) and the well-meaning but fundamentally idiotic moves by Bill Clinton and others to pursue the sub-prime marketplace to begin with, so that more people might share the ‘American Dream’, forgetting the first part of the American Dream which is a lot of bloody hard work in a fundamentally unfettered marketplace in which people who work hard will be rewarded.
[BARRONS.com: Stocks To Watch Today] YRC W'wide Admits To Charge, No Guide For EPS - Stocks To Watch ...: 996million fron dhl some cash some stock.Then again in april 2009 when contract was due,It really seemed the union gave yrc a blank peice of paper and told them you can have anything you want,they gave back days offand mgrs where already taking 10% out off pay whenever they could get away with it even though it had even been voted on.Contractprior to this one they also gave away 1very important Constitutional right.INICENT till provin GUILTY,now it’s GUILTY TILL PROVEN INICENT at your expense and they will do whatever it takes including lieing to get rid of you.Yellow Security baits employes by putting for example WII on dock and watch 2 see id they disappear/or plant frt in trl 2 see if you fill out paperwork/OH yea didi I tell you they also follow you home and when you call HR to complain about ABUSIVE MGRS THEY SAY THERE IS NO PROBLEM thats. when the heat really hits you.
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