Pittsburgh Newspaper Covers Fed Up at FedEx Report - November 05, 2007

Although Memphis is clearly calling the shots in the old RPS headquarters in Pittsburgh, there must be some managers in western Pennsylvania that are concerned with the bad press that FedEx Ground continues to get.

One reporter from Pittsburgh was tuned in to the release of the American Rights at Work and Leadership Conference on Civil Rights report "Fed Up at FedEx: How FedEx Ground Tramples Workers' Rights and Civil Rights." 

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette printed an article on Sunday .  The reporter did a good job to cover many angles of the story.

However, <Univ. of Pittsburgh Business School Professor Marick Masters> said, "If push comes to shove, one of the primary reasons that [companies] do this is to avoid unionization."

And what clever response did the FedEx spokespodperson have?

FedEx did not return phone calls seeking comment for this article.

Seeing how FedEx is always blowing its own horn, the silence seems out of character.