FEDEX Corp’s head of ground unit operations told contractors who deliver packages that it will only negotiate individually and not with a union, reports Bloomberg.
An internal memo from ground unit chief John Smith, made available to Bloomberg, from ground unit chief John Smith said: ‘FedEx Ground will not discuss, negotiate, or renegotiate service provider agreements or financial terms with a committee or any individual purporting to represent a collective body of service provider businesses.’
This comes after a large contractor last week urged fedex to boost payments to make up for rising costs and warned contractors it would form a 10-person committee to negotiate with the company.
FedEx uses some 6,000 small, independently run companies for ground delivery of its packages throughout the US and Canada.
