According to  a report in the Wall Street Journal, FedEX won a class action case against drivers who claimed they were improperly classified by the corporation as "independent contractors" and were therefore divested of benefits they should have gotten as company employees. The suit was brought in Indiana, and the federal judge ruled against the drivers in most of the cases. However, in previous lawsuits FedEx was found to be improperly using the independent contractor model, which the company an advantage over rival UPS, whose drivers are unionized.

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