Thursday, October 9, 2008

The Purple Promise........ not for US!

The "Purple Promise" Doesn't Apply To Us!

All of us at FedEx Express have heard about the Purple Promise for years. As more
and more of our benefits keep slipping away, we all held onto our company's word that we would ultimately be taken care of by the company that we helped build. Most of us were of the belief that we were highly valued at FedEx and the Purple Promise would prevail and protect us.
We would have an outstanding experience! We are promised an outstanding experience!

Well, at the company's annual shareholders meeting held Sept. 29th, in Memphis, Fred
Smith apparently has a new definition of the Purple Promise, and it does not apply to employees.

A worker asked Smith a question about why the pension plan was changed, and stated that such an action by the company basically went against FedEx keeping its
Purple Promise to employees.

That was when Smith redefined the Purple Promise. His statement (which can be heard
on an audiotape of the meeting posted on FedEx's website),was this:

The Purple Promise applies to customers. I will make every FedEx customer
experience outstanding. Unfortunately its not within my power to make every life experience for YOU outstanding.

There were several FedEx Express mechanics at the meeting when Smith said this and we
couldn't believe our ears. All those years of the company selling us the Purple Promise, only to find it gone, taken away, just like our defined benefit pension
plan.

Whats next?

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www.fedxmx.com

4 comments:

irudedog said...

Here's a question and answer from the Fortune 500 website with Fred Smith

"Why are you opposed to union labor? What's your take on the Teamsters attempting to unionize FedEx?" - Stephen Miller, Sterling, VA

Fred Smith :
"FedEx is not anti-union in any way. The Teamsters are in the business of trying to represent people and collecting dues from them. They've been trying to represent FedEx employees for 35 years. The Teamsters have not had success here not because we're doing anything that's anti-Teamster but because we're doing things that are very pro-employee."

I guess Fred hasn't told his managers, that FedEx is not anti-union. Then why do they show anti-union video? Start a anti-union website? Confront employees telling them the union is not going to happen here? Tell lies about organizers? Hire union buster like Richard Brown?

You do the math, my fellow employees.

It's time to get off the fence! Stop waiting to see whats going to happen next. Get involved with a committee at you terminal or start one! Do it for you. Do it for our families!

irudedog said...

p.s.

I guess it's ok for the pilots to be in a union and pay dues. It was totally up to them Fred, not you.

Anonymous said...

IT MAY BE TRUE OR JUST MORE RUMORS BUT WE HEAR SOME VACATION HOURS WILL BE CUT AND SICK HOURS WILL ALSO DROP FROM 32 TO 16, WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR CEO'S AN OPEN TICKET TO CHANGE THINGS THEY WILL, OAK HARBOR IS PROFF THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A UNION BACKING YOU THERE IS POWER IN NUMBERS. AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE STANDING THERE WAITING FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF CHANGES THEY ARE COMMING AND YOU WONT BE HAPPY.

Anonymous said...

Andy Lessin runs around yelling people first when he is taking away their benefits and such but what people need to realize here is that we are a "family first" company with the Teamsters helping middle class and working families not like evil andy lessin incorporated.