Will overlooked some facts

Will overlooked some facts

EDITOR:

George Will accuses UPS of “bending public power for private advantage” because it believes that FedEx’s workers should have the same right to organize as their peers at other package-delivery companies (“Obama is paying bills owed to labor,” July 16).

But he neglects to mention that one reason FedEx’s employees aren’t unionized is because the company spent millions over the past decade lobbying Congress to preserve a legal loophole that restricts its employees’ right to organize. That sounds an awful lot like “bending public power for private advantage.”

FedEx’s chicanery doesn’t stop there. It’s threatening to cancel a multibillion-dollar airplane order — putting thousands of manufacturing jobs at risk — if Congress closes its labor loophole. That sounds like simple blackmail to me.

RICHARD P. MICHALSKI

General vice president

International Association of Machinists

Upper Marlboro, Md.