Then you fail to understand what I'm saying
You are hopeless
I understand well how this place works. It functions on greed and pitting people against each other. I can immediately pinpoint it when full-time employees act condescending towards 'lower tiers' and can only offer up condolences and excuses while telling them they have it so good. The final act is typically telling them to go full-time if they don't like it or go elsewhere. Meanwhile, full-timers cannibalize themselves with tiered wages. The problem is the union is its membership and the membership as a whole is borderline *. It's no wonder UPS negotiators take the teamsters to the woodshed for each contract.
Like I said if you want to make the big butts they driving.
In regards to this contract - we'll see. I think tenured part-timers require a hefty catch-up raise.
I think they need to go driving instead of letting people off the street take those jobs
Half of the 22.3's in my building load or unload trucks. Yet they make more than a starting package car driver.
Is it really that low for some? Dang. I earned ~250 monthly benefit last year as a PT employee
Anymore delivery jobs are a throw away career.
I run a business. Many other long-tenured PTers are in similar situations. We do not want to go driving. We also don't appreciate being held hostage and our vote nullified by 18 year old's passing through, not that there is anything wrong with that group of employees. The system was set up this way for a reason and the demographics won't change. I think you're part of the problem and don't realize it. Your solution is to suck it up and be grateful for what I have (which is shrinking each contract), go full-time, or quit. I think none of those are reasonable options.
Because people do not want to make it a career
Like I said man up get a brown uniform and go out driving and get back to me
You keep saying this as if there is a point. If part-timers and full-timers made the same hourly wage, part-timers wouldn't take home the same paycheck. You and I started going back and forth because I pointed out new hires make the same or more than a 10-year union employee. You've managed to turn this into PT vs FT because that's how bad these contracts are - the only escape is to join the ranks of the 1% drivers until that too is no longer a viable option.
Well if that was the case I wasn't working side instead of taking responsible a job of driving
How so? You couldn’t afford the benefits you receive as a part-time employee. So they definitely are important.
I think drivers should be on one tier and share the same wage. I don't care if that wage is 70/hour - good for you. I also think there is something very wrong with a new hire making more than a 10-year union employee and the solution is not to tell the 10-year employee how good their benefits are and if they don't like it man up and go drive.
