FedEx and UPS Clash Over Legislation

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Accusations of Bailout and Disinformation Fly as Bill Threatens to Facilitate FedEx Unionization

FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. are intensifying a dispute over proposed legislation that could upset the balance of power in the package-delivery business by making it easier to unionize FedEx.

UPS is hoping Democratic control of Congress and the White House will enable it to win support for a bill that would place some of FedEx's drivers and other employees under the National Labor Relations Act, the same law that governs UPS. FedEx drivers are currently governed by a separate federal law that makes unionizing more difficult.

The House passed a version of the bill, called the FAA ...