The Company Beat Archive: Labor

UPS vs. FedEx on the Hill

What's the number one, all-day, all-night lobbying priority for FedEx these days? It's 230 words in a spending bill for the Federal Aviation Administration that has drawn the shipping companies UPS and FedEx into a knock-down-drag-out lobbying fight with one another. The provision would make it easier for FedEx truck drivers to unionize, and as The Hill reported yesterday, the Senate could vote this week on a final version of the bill.

By Jia Lynn Yang  |  July 20, 2010; 3:02 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
Categories:  FedEx , Labor , UPS  
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