{"id":1528,"date":"2010-01-16T10:20:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T10:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2010-01-16T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T10:20:46","slug":"the_right_to_form_a_union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"The Right To Form A Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view.bg?articleid=1225947\">Boston Herald<\/a>&nbsp;posted a story stating that Martha Coakley told a group of teamsters in Watertown yesterday that she was planning to support the &#8220;Express Carrier Protection Act,&#8221; which would allow FedEx to unionize.&nbsp; Currently, FedEx falls under the Railway Labor Act and which does not allow its workers to form unions.<\/p>\n<p>Just off the top of my head, it seems to me that FedEx is doing a pretty good job of delivering packages.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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. <\/p>\n<p>I might mention at this point that FedEx is not unionized and the Post Office is unionized.&nbsp; The Post Office is also a private delivery service (it is no longer government run), and the contrast in efficiency is rather obvious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Boston Herald&nbsp;posted a story stating that Martha Coakley told a group of teamsters in Watertown yesterday that she was planning to support the &#8220;Express Carrier Protection Act,&#8221; which would allow FedEx to unionize.&nbsp; Currently, FedEx falls under the Railway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1528\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}