Posted 6:36 PM by steve

While Fedex's announcement that they will hold off buying more jets if the Democrats pass 'card check' legislation is a clear signal that this legislation is a jobs killer, Fedex ought to know that backers of the bill could care less... and neither will Fedex's current workforce.

Fedex's current workforce, the unions who are trying to unionize them and Democratic politicians don't care about employees who have yet to be hired, as in the case of the pilots and other workers Fedex would hire to fly and service these additional planes.

Employees want more money and higher benefits for themselves; they aren't going to give up money they could otherwise have for themselves in order for the company to go hire more employees. Fedex's employees don't care if Fedex becomes twice as big as it now is, they care about the amount of money they take home every two weeks.

And unions represent current employees (in some cases, they represent retired workers). While union leaders might like to see their union grow in membership, they know that their ability to keep pulling down the nice paycheck they get depends not on the number of employees in the union but rather on how happy the current members are with the last contract negotiated on their behalf. They know employees who have yet to be hired don't get to vote in union elections, so quite logically, their efforts are devoted to extorting as much money as they can from management.

And Democratic lawmakers know where their campaign contributions come from. The money they so desperately need doesn't come from 'workers' as an abstract, they come from unions and union members... and as sunset follow sunrise, Democrats aren't going to do anything to jeopardize this flow of campaign contributions. Put another way, a Democrat would rather see 1,000 workers in their district become union members than see their district's employment grow by 10,000.