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Sanity Claws

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1. FedEx always claimed that it was under the Railway Labor Act

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Oct 15, 2014, 01:34 PM

Oct 2014

and thus organization had to be done by craft, not location. They paid good money for this is my recollection.

Do you know anything about this? Whether the drivers are an exception to the RLA?

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