The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 17:03, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"Brown bailout" is a term coined by FedEx to support its lobbying. This summer, the U.S. Congress debated (and in some ways is still debating) legislation that would result in FedEx Ground being defined as a trucking company, as opposed to an airline. Trucking companies fall under the National Labor Relations Act, meaning that their employees are able to unionize locally. Airlines are regulated under the Railway Labor Act, meaning that their employees can only unionize if they hold a national vote to do so. This means that it's much harder for airlines to unionize than trucking companies. UPS is regulated as a trucking company (because it was founded as such), so it is largely unionized. FedEx is regulated as an airline (because it was founded as such), so very few of its classes of employees are unionized. Under the assumption that unions raise costs, UPS wants to level the playing field, so they have lobbied in support of reclassifying FedEx as a trucking company. FedEx fought back with an ad campaign arguing that UPS is seeking a "bailout," and called it a "Brown bailout." Most of the campaign didn't go into any details of what's behind it, simply saying that UPS wants a bailout.
Sorry, that was pretty long. But it's necessary to understand this. Having a Wikipedia article about this term would be equivalent to creating an article for "death panels." It's a loaded term, violated WP:NPOV. It's also a neologism, violating WP:NEO. At best, I would support creation of an article about the above legislation and the FedEx and UPS responses to it, with "Brown bailout" serving as a redirect to a particular section. But this is nothing more than a public relations term coined for the express purpose of swaying public opinion. Jesuschex (talk) 04:46, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]