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March 26 FedEx Won't Say How Many Single-route or Multi-route ContractorsChristine Richards is the FedEx Corporation’s General Counsel and Secretary.  She primarily handled the questions from analysts on FedEx’s misclassification troubles on the March 20, 2008 quarterly conference call.  She did her best not to answer those questions.  Especially a question about exactly what the percentage of single work area versus multi work area contractors were in the past and are presently.  If FedEx wants to convince observers to believe that the future of the Ground division is in the hands of multi-route drivers, the company will need to show how this ‘transition’ is going in practice.  Although Counselor Richards didn’t offer any answers, other FedEx lawyers provided some historical data in the multi-district litigation.  And we are posting it as a public service.
March 19 FedEx Files Brief in U.S. Court of AppealsFedEx Home Delivery is defending its illegal contractor model in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  FedEx Home Delivery is requesting a review of a National Labor Relations Board determination that drivers at two Massachusetts terminals are employees and not “contractors” as contended by FedEx. The drivers at the two facilities overwhelmingly voted in October 2006 to join Teamsters Local 25. The NLRB ordered FedEx to bargain with Local 25, but FedEx refused to do so and filed the request for review in the Court of Appeals instead. The D.C. Circuit is the highest court yet to hear a case on FedEx’s illegal contractor model.