This is for the shipping geeks. Check out how competitive it gets with the package carriers! It looks like FedEx is trying to keep the Express workers from unionizing and FedEx made a site called brownbailout.com.

Last month, FedEx launched a multimillion-dollar online campaign against longtime rival United Parcel Service over a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill making its way through Congress. FedEx says a provision of the bill, as passed in the House, amounts to a “bailout” for UPS. But that’s an abuse of the term.

The measure would bring drivers and other non-airline-based employees of FedEx’s Express division, which handles “time-sensitive shipments,” under the coverage of the National Labor Relations Act, instead of the Railway Labor Act. Under the NLRA, the FedEx workers would be able to unionize locally, on a site-by-site basis, instead of nationally as required by the RLA. Unionizing, in other words, is somewhat easier under the NLRA.

We don’t have an opinion on this, only that the tactics and fight are interesting to watch. FedEx even hired a UPS-looking actor to make videos and put them on YouTube. His name is “brown bailout guy”. Intense!