NY Times Article is Spreading Thru the Internet - May 31, 2006

The New York Times article is certainly spreading thru cyberspace.  After the piece spent a good part of the day among the "Top 10" Emailed articles at NYTimes.com.

The good, long blog post at Firedoglake puts the FedEx Ground retaliation against the Northboro drivers into the proper context as a standard operating procedure for many anti-union employers these days.  The writer of that post, Justin Barab of Confined Space, is a strong, clear voice for worker issues in the blogosphere.

But the blog that will have a special place in the FedEx Ground fight lore is WorkersCompInsider for warning FedEx managers in April 2005 to read the Massachusetts attorney general's directives on that state's independent contractor law.  We never doubted that FedEx didn't read the Massachusetts laws.  They are just too heavily invested in the independent contractor scam to change their ways.