| DATE |
TITLE |
| March 16 |
APX Logistics to File for BankruptcyMULTICHANNEL MERCHANT has heard from several sources that Santa Fe Springs, CA-based third-party logistics provider APX Logistics will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
-- Multichannel Merchant |
| March 13 |
Package Deliverer Hit the Ground Running and Hasn’t StoppedIt has been 20 years since the delivery company Daniel Sullivan conceived in a Pittsburgh hotel room made its first rounds on March 11, 1985, picking up 1,788 small packages in 36 U.S. cities.
-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| March 10 |
Fred Smith makes Forbes’ billionaire listFedEx Corp.‘s chairman, president and CEO Frederick Smith was ranked No. 365 on Forbes’ 2006 list of the world’s richest people, with a net worth of $2.1 billion. Smith’s self-made fortune was made through his Memphis-based shipping giant. His annual pay is $4.62 million.
-- Memphis Business Journal |
| March 09 |
FedEx Flies Politicians Around Country SafelyAlaska Rep. Don Young has enjoyed the use of corporate jets for his political campaigns more often than almost every other member of the U.S. House.
-- Anchorage Daily News |
| March 07 |
Study Shows FedEx Flights Popular with PoliticiansFedEx Corp. and UST Inc. are among the companies whose corporate jets are most likely to be used by federal politicians, according to an analysis released Monday.
-- The Associated Press |
| March 06 |
Jury Awards $108,000 to Deaf FedEx EmployeeA federal jury has awarded $108,000 in punitive and compensatory damages to a deaf worker who accused Federal Express Corporation of failing to provide him with a reasonable accommodation in the form of American Sign Language interpreters.
-- Business & Legal Reports |
| March 02 |
Tax Breaks for Corps like FedEx Challenged at Supreme CourtEconomic development proponents say Tennessee’s business environment could suffer if tax breaks used to attract companies to invest here and other states were deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
-- The Associated Press |
| March 01 |
FedEx Ground Site in Barrington, NJ to Open September 2006An underused 89-acre industrial park in central Camden County will get a new chance to operate at its full potential.
-- Courier-Post |
| February 28 |
Unionized UPS Drivers Avoid Blue-Collar BluesAfter 19 years, Arturo Carrasco is still considered one of the new guys at United Parcel Service Inc. “I have one of the hardest routes in downtown Chicago and I will have to wait years to be senior enough for one of the easier routes,” said the 40-year-old driver, who came here from Mexico 23 years ago.
-- Reuters |
| February 28 |
FedEx Freight Expanding HeadquartersFedEx Freight, FedEx’s lessthan-truckload subsidiary, said Monday that expansion plans for a 92, 000-square-foot addition to its headquarters in Harrison will be submitted to the city’s planning board by the end of April.
-- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette |
| February 09 |
FedEx Hub to Stir Rivalry for Tax GiveawaysThe Triad should brace for more intense competition for incentives as the FedEx Corp. hub begins to take shape this fall at Piedmont Triad International Airport, a top company official said yesterday.
-- Winston-Salem Journal |
| February 06 |
FedEx Freight Mistake Releases Private Employee DataFedEx Freight West officials were scrambling Friday to recall W-2s sent to as many as 8,500 employees after learning that some of the forms also included other workers’ tax information. As many as 1,100 workers in the Los Angeles-Orange County area could be affected.
-- Orange County Register |
| January 10 |
FedEx Kinko’s President ReplacedFedEx Corp. announced Monday that the president and CEO of FedEx Kinko’s Office and Print Services will leave at the end January.
-- Pittsburgh Business Times |
| December 22 |
Key to FedEx Driver Dispute All in the ContractKenny Belden has an identity crisis: His contract says he’s an independent contractor, but he says he is treated like an employee.
-- Reuters |
| December 18 |
FedEx, Workers Battle Over Vote to Organize First Drivers UnionIn December, when Santa contracts out some of his package-delivery work, drivers at FedEx fly down the highways, typically starting before sunrise and finishing long after dark.
-- Philadelphia Inquirer |
| December 15 |
Overnight? Don’t Say FedExThe transit workers are still locked in negotiations with the Wal-Mart-like Metropolitan Transit Authority (like Wal-Mart, the MTA is bulging in surpluse but doesn’t think the workers should get a fair shake) and I don’t have any idea insight so…I came across some new information on the campaign to organize FedEx parcel delivery workers.
-- Working Life |
| December 05 |
Delivery Companies PressuredCalifornia is stepping up its campaign against delivery companies that avoid an array of payroll taxes by classifying their drivers as independent contractors.
-- Los Angeles Times |
| September 19 |
Mutiny on the FedEx TruckIs a package deliverer an independent contractor or an employee? A truckload of money is at stake.
-- Forbes |
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