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Ask Away

This guy running around at my location at FedEx Ground in Toronto has now released a letter to the staff telling us to ask for our cards back. If you were to read this letter you would see that management is behind it. Why would I make such a statement. (1) This person is talking to people on company time asking them to pull there card. (2)This same person has been handing out this anti -union letter on company time. (3) He spends alot of time with management. (4) He has made it clear to most of us that he would like to become a supervisor. (5) Now draw your on conclusions.

Teamsters Canada Response:

If these things are happening I can tell you what he is doing is totally illegal. I have read the letter and can tell you that I have seen letters like this in every organizing campaign that I have been involved with.

Just so everybody knows a similar letter was written to all the Purolator workers 20 years ago. 20 years ago Purolator workers were non-union and had no pension and minimal or zero health and welfare benefits, not to mention they were the lowest paid workers in the industry. Now…..in the year 2010 they have 100% company paid pension, benefits, and the administrative staff make over $21 per hour.

Mr. Chumber makes another bold statement… he says when your unionized that “there must be a two weeks notice given to managers to take a day off”…..this is an outright lie! Both the UPS and Purolator agreement state that you must call in at least one hour prior to your scheduled start time if you are not coming into work. Both the Purolator and UPS contracts provide full-pay for the first 5 days off per year.

Myth #4: FedEx management say’s it will close any unionized terminal

It is against the law to say that or any threat. FedEx hasn’t closed its unionized European operations nor have they eliminated their unionized pilots. So why would they shut you down? The answer is simple: “it’s only a scare tactic”.