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April 07 FedEx Freight to raise general rates nearly 6%FedEx Freight announced Friday it will raise general service rates by 5.95 percent beginning on April 24. The rate increase is related to service offerings and innovations such as its no-fee, money-back guarantee.
-- Memphis Business Journal
April 06 Corzine orders crackdown on independent contractorsGov. Jon S. Corzine has called for a crackdown on companies that duck tax payments and deny their workers basic protections by improperly classifying some people as independent contractors, instead of regular employees.
-- Asbury Park Press
April 06 UPS Announces New China FlightsUnited Parcel Service Inc. has begun direct air service from Shanghai to Europe, added three new flights connecting Shanghai to the United States and started a new flight between Qingdao and Incheon, Korea. 
-- Atlanta Business Journal
April 05 FedEx Drivers Sue for Workers StatusFormer delivery drivers for FedEx Corp. in Minnesota contend in a lawsuit filed Monday that the company misclassified them as independent contractors rather than employees, costing them money and benefits.
-- Pioneer Press
March 30 Logistics Firms Advance in JapanDistribution facilities have long been considered one of the most antiquated parts of Japan’s business chain. But in recent years, as the process of dispatching manufactured goods and materials has changed, demand for modernized centers has grown so strong that one leader in the rental field intends to triple its space in Japan over the next three years.
-- International Herald Tribune
March 27 FedEx Expands Market Strategy in ChinaBEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua)-- FedEx Express announced on Monday the introduction of three new flights into China later this month.
-- China View
March 17 FedEx, Nestle settle lawsuitThe U.S. Department of Labor announced a settlement for hundreds of FedEx job applicants who were denied certain jobs because of racial or sexual discrimination. FedEx Ground in North Salt Lake City will pay 161 minority and 230 female applicants $110,000 in back pay and will hire 76 package handlers for its distribution center from those groups, according to the agreement.
-- Daily Herald
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
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