Today's Boston Herald posted a story stating that Martha Coakley told a group of teamsters in Watertown yesterday that she was planning to support the "Express Carrier Protection Act," which would allow FedEx to unionize. Currently, FedEx falls under the Railway Labor Act and which does not allow its workers to form unions.
Just off the top of my head, it seems to me that FedEx is doing a pretty good job of delivering packages. As far as I know, people have the choice to work for FedEx or not to work for FedEx and when anyone takes a job there, they are aware that they are not part of a union. Frankly, I see nothing to be gained by unionizing FedEx, and since FedEx is based in Memphis, Tennessee, not Massachusetts, I wonder why unionizing it is being brought up in the Massachusetts Senate race.
I might mention at this point that FedEx is not unionized and the Post Office is unionized. The Post Office is also a private delivery service (it is no longer government run), and the contrast in efficiency is rather obvious.
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