Dear friend,

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Bill, along with the Express Carrier Employee Protection legislation, passed in the U.S. House in May, and recently, the FAA Bill was introduced in the Senate. The Express Carrier legislation will work to close the loophole that allows FedEx an unfair cost advantage in the package delivery industry and protect the rights of employees to form a union.

No company should be able to hide behind a special deal just to prevent its workers from forming a union. In the interest of fairness in the package delivery industry and protecting the rights of workers to organize, please write your Senators and ask that they support the Express Carrier legislation and make sure it appears in the final version of the FAA Reauthorization bill.

Subject: Support the Express Carrier Employee Protection Legislation

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

I am writing to ask for your support of the Express Carrier Employee Protection legislation attached to the FAA Reauthorization Bill.

Most of the employees of FedEx Express have little to nothing to do with aircraft operations, but because of a legislative loophole that affects one company, FedEx, they are unfairly placed under the wrong labor laws. The result is that the employees are deprived of the right to join or form a union in the same manner as similarly situated employees working for other freight and package delivery companies. Over the years, FedEx Express has transformed itself into a multi-faceted transportation company that relies in large measure on trucks to deliver its packages. Most of its employees - truck drivers, truck mechanics, package handlers, couriers, and other non-FAA-licensed employees - never touch an airplane, yet they are subject to the Railway Labor Act. If they worked for any other company in the United States, they would be subject to the National Labor Relations Act.

I ask you to help to properly classify the FedEx workers so that they can exercise their right to organize under the appropriate laws; licensed air employees under the Railway Labor Act and all non-licensed employees under the National Labor Relations Act.

No company should be able to hide behind a special deal just to prevent its workers from forming a union. In the interest of fairness in the package delivery industry and protecting the rights of workers to organize, I ask you to support the Express Carrier legislation and make sure it appears in the final version of the FAA Reauthorization bill.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]