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I like the way you said a Right-To-Work (for less) state.

I know, lets become a majority union state, say like Detroit Michigan! That way in five years there will be no business left in North Carolina and we can all get on welfare. I am a Liberal Moron and I approved this message.

The LTE writer has hit the nail on the head. Fed Ex should not be given privileges other companies are denied. And it does make no sense for them to be given this exemption.

Unionization is more than about wages. It's about fair treatment from your employers.

I'm perplexed why so many people in North Carolina think it's OK to get screwed over by your boss, and have no recourse.

It seems to me, based on my understanding of current laws, that the problem is not so much that NC is a right to work state as it is that workers who do not join a union get all the benefits that the union gains for its members in the same workplace. If workers choose not to join a union, that should be their right, but they should not receive what the union has negotiated on behalf of its members. It is no more "right" for non-members to gain from their non-membership than it is for employers to deny their workers the right to organize in the name of protecting them from making a "wrong choice" or for unions to force membership on workers who do not choose to join.
All of these positions hold the possibility of some good outcomes for workers, but they also hold the reality of infringements on workers' rights. If organizing is a right workers enjoy, and I believe it is, then choosing not to join a workers' organization is also a right, but exercising each right involves the loss of some personal maneuver room. In joining, a union member agrees to abide by what the union majority wants. In not joining, a worker should not expect what the union's power of membership can negotiate.
But then, I also believe that people who denigrate the contracts that management negotiates and signs by blaming unforeseen outcomes on unions which are denied full access to the financial information necessary to let them limit their demands to what is reasonable and avoid what is potentially ruinous, those people have axes to grind which have little to do with the economic and workplace issues involved.

It doesn't seem that being a right-to-work state produces positive outcomes either in terms of median household income or per capita GSP. I looked at both to see the what the distribution would be. Given that almost half the states (22) are right-to-work, I expected to see a normal distribution. Instead, the right-to-work states are skewed to the middle and bottom of both distributions. By comparison, the non-right-to-work states end up in the highest quintiles on by measures. Interesting.

Panacea, no one is FORCED to work for FedEx. Therefore if they feel they are getting "screwed over by your boss, and have no recourse" they are free to quit and let someone who doesn't have a job take theirs!

imho, unions are one reason GM found itself in the situation it was in - paying huge wages to workers who know they can't be fired for unsatisfactory work while producing a crappy product.

No mention of the destructive policies of our union sock puppet of a President. He continues to prop up overpaid, over benefitted, non innovative industries, that maintain absurd work rules that hamper competitiveness.Obama is not supporting "fair"trade, he is protecting the AFL-CIO, United Steel Workers, Auto workers and causing protectionist retaliation from Mexico and China. He has learned nothing from the 1930's regarding protectionism and raising taxes. This is the Obama economy.