FedEx is so very complicated, FXG isn’t union, Federal Express is, IIRC something to do with them being under FAA authority. Not sure about FedEx Freight, FedEx LTL or FedEx Expediting. And that’s just part of the mess of the company. As to the name thing, that was started by RPS, FXG’s predecessor, and was a single contractor buying a route from RPS, with RPS supplying vans and uniforms much the way Amazon does with their companies, but it’s entirely possible that some of those drivers bought multiple routes and formed up their own little company, or that FXG followed in Amazon’s footsteps and switched to contracting with companies rather than individuals.

Amazon upped it here by hiring courier companies, even helping to found them, with really bad contract deals, rather than hiring individual contractors like companies had before this.

Amazon is particularly good at thinking up ways to avoid responsibility, they own no vans, employ no drivers, have no planes nor employ any pilots, and they don’t own any tractors and don’t employ any truck drivers.

Did they change? I worked for them as a sorter before they were FedEx Ground, and at that time it was similar, each driver was a contractor with FXG, but after the lawsuit (dunno what happened with that), and seeing how successful the scam was for Amazon, I wouldn’t be surprised if’n they changed.

Definitely

While I generally agree, from what I read, the issue is that the court extended the date that for collecting signatures, appeals court put that on hold. Yes, they should still start counting to save time, especially as they’ve said they’re going to be very, very picky about the signatures, but of course they don’t want to waste time and money on that while the date is up in the air… it has nothing whatsoever to do with trying to delay things as long as possible.

Prolly nothing, but the mine is halted if’n I’m reading that right, so it never got built, and this is at the highest state level, so it’s dead unless they can figure out a way to take this to Federal court.

I use both and while I prefer Kbin’s interface slightly, I will say that my experience with Lemmy is definitely better, the Kbin instance I’m on often has 500 errors on various parts of the site, along with lots of duplicate posts. Overall, I think it’s a toss up, neither one is particularly better than the other, though Lemmy is bigger.

https://www.weareteachers.com/houston-isd-fires-librarians/

Try that link, if’n it works, I’ll switch the links. With how many adblockers and such I have on Firefox, I don’t see autoplays or ads, and can force pop ups and other things to go away.

Basically yes

I wanna know that too

I have mine running through Polaris Mail. The domain cost me around $5 for the year (renewal is $10 IIRC), and I’m running the Y25 plan for $25/yr which has been big enough for me. SMTP is included, and there is a web interface, but I haven’t really used that, T-bird and K9 take care of my needs.