Patrick Kelly has invited us to attend Local 952's "Freight Industry Appreciation Event" this Sunday. It's not an organizing meeting.  Just a get together of all Freight employees to get together and to get to know each other.

RSVP Jessica Garcia
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Trump Petitions Court To Restore And ‘Expedite’ His Anti-Union Executive Orders

Sahid Fawaz July 26, 2019 

President Donald Trump is on the rampage against unions yet again.

Courthouse News Service reports:

“President Donald Trump has called on the D.C. Circuit to immediately green-light enforcement of three executive orders challenged by labor unions and deemed unlawful by a federal judge last year.

His motion filed Tuesday night comes one week after the federal appeals court overturned the lower court ruling striking down provisions in the orders that tighten regulations on labor negotiations in government workplaces.

Trump is now asking the D.C. Circuit to expedite its ruling on the “erroneous injunction” put in place last year by U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who sided with the American Federation of Government Employees, or AFL-CIO, collectively representing the unions

The three-judge panel chose not to immediately lift the ban, allowing unions 45 days to request a reconsideration of their claims. But Tuesday’s filing contends the block continues to handicap government officials across agencies who are in ongoing collective bargaining with unions . . .

The AFL-CIO filed the lawsuit less than a week after Trump issued the orders in May 2018, claiming they violated labor union members’ ability to negotiate grievances on behalf of individual employees or a group of employees.

The orders limit the topics to be taken up and set time restrictions on negotiations, curbing the ‘official time’ during which employees are supposed to be paid for carrying out union-related duties . . .

But the D.C. Circuit ruled last week that Judge Brown Jackson lacked jurisdiction on the matter, and sent the case to the Federal Labor Relations Authority for review.

Justice Department attorneys argued in Tuesday motion’s that the FLRA board — made up of three Trump appointees tasked with adjudicating federal labor disputes — is the only appropriate forum for unions to present grievances.”

For the rest of the story, visit Courthouse News Service here.

FedEx loses $2 billion, warns of headwinds in coming year

By DAVID KOENIGyesterday

DALLAS (AP) — FedEx Corp. posted weak quarterly results in its core express business and warned Tuesday that its profit in the year ahead will be hurt by slowing growth in the world economy and the decision to drop a contract with retail giant Amazon.

The delivery company reported a quarterly loss of nearly $2 billion. However, excluding an accounting charge for retirement plans and other items that the company doesn’t expect will repeat, the results were better than Wall Street expected.

FedEx started a new fiscal year this month, and Chief Financial Officer Alan Graf said the company’s performance, especially at FedEx Express, is being hurt by continued weakness in global trade and industrial production.

The company announced this month that it would not renew an airfreight-delivery contract with Amazon that expires June 30. It did not disclose the value of that work, but said Amazon accounted for less than 1.3% of its revenue in 2018.

FedEx also finds itself in the middle of a trade dispute between the U.S. and China. On Monday, the company sued the Commerce Department , seeking to stop it from enforcing export rules that restrict shipments to, among others, Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker Huawei Technologies. Huawei was recently added to a list of companies barred from receiving U.S. technology without a special license from the Commerce Department.

In the fiscal fourth quarter, which ended May 31, FedEx reported a loss of $1.97 billion, compared with profit of $1.13 billion a year earlier.

FedEx said that adjusted profit excluding various charges was $5.01 per share. While down from $5.91 a year earlier, the results beat expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for $4.81 per share.

Revenue rose 3% to $17.81 billion, which met the analysts’ forecasts.

The company’s biggest business, express, saw lower revenue from international priority packages, and the unit’s operating income slid by 12% on a 1% dip in sales.

FedEx Ground ran into rising costs as it shifted to a year-round schedule of six days a week. The company plans to go seven days a week starting next January. The unit’s income was flat despite 11% higher revenue.

“The quarter was a mixed bag,” said Matt Arnold, an analyst with Edward Jones. “Ground continues to perform well, freight continues to perform well, but unfortunately on the international side the express business is still under pressure — essentially no change from what we saw a quarter ago.”

For the year, FedEx, which is based in Memphis, Tennessee, reported profit of $540 million on revenue of $69.69 billion.

FedEx shares fell $4.92, or 3.1%, to close Tuesday at $155.98 before the release of the results. During extended trading after the financial results were released, the shares were up $1.05 to $157.03.

UPS Rising News

June 5, 2019

Status on UPS Back Pay

The following is an update on the back pay owed to UPS members.

The company expects the back pay to be issued the first pay period of July. This contract was the richest in Teamster history and the back pay just for the nine months between August 1, 2018 and April 29, 2019 is approximately $660 million.

The company is currently calculating back pay for 250,000 employees with various hours worked, multiple classifications and pay rates. Many employees work more than one classification with different pay rates in one week or even within one day. Any time a member works in more than one job in any one day, it triggers a calculation requiring someone to manually calculate the pay rate figures.

The company estimates that there will be over 200,000 manual calculations required to ensure that the back pay is accurate and they will be working on this through June. UPS is keeping us informed and is working to make this happen as quickly as possible.

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Trump's Trickle Down Tax Cut Has Arrived: Worker Bonuses Up a Penny!

Sahid Fawaz May 27, 2019 

The numbers are in: the American worker got an average bonus increase of one cent  in 2018.

The Economic Policy Institute reports:

“Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employer Costs for Employee Compensation gives us a chance to look at workers’ bonuses in 2017 and 2018, to gauge the impact of the GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Last year, our analysis showed that bonuses rose by $0.02 between December 2017 and September 2018 (all calculations in this analysis are inflation-adjusted). The new data show that bonuses actually fell $0.22 between December 2017 and December 2018 and the average bonus for 2018 was just $0.01 higher than in 2017.”

In addition, the tax cuts are starving the US of tax revenue. Last week, the Treasury Department announced that the US could default on its debt if the debt ceiling isn’t raised in the summer.

But the tax cuts have been a boon to corporations, as they engage in a fury of stock buybacks which serve to enrich corporate investors and virtually no one else.

For more on this development and the full report by the Economic Policy Institute, visit its website here.

Are We Really Busy?

We drivers at SBO are really wondering if we are really "that busy" here?Dispatch sent out a text asking if three drivers would like to take off on Wednesday ?

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