Browndriver5
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If you can't afford to buy a car cash money you shouldn't buy it. Cars are such a horrible investment.
August 2018
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Don't put the cart before the horse...
clean hairy
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clean hairy
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only once I have spent more than 4gs on a car.
not 1 has required major repairs.
not 1 has required major repairs.
I know a guy that works pt preload, that is an instructor for the FAA... only here for the benefits
Fragile
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Right to work will ruin unions and the labor movement. It will continue to separate the upper class from the lower class and pretty much eliminate the middle class.
Americans who are trapped in the middle class will continue trying to keep up with the Joneses' by buying gadgets and other material objects in a attempt to demonstrate wealth but in reality will push themselves into the lower classes.
It's a nasty ride but we need to make it. UPS and the Teamsters are only a small player in this huge chess game. Odds and time are against you. Good luck.
Americans who are trapped in the middle class will continue trying to keep up with the Joneses' by buying gadgets and other material objects in a attempt to demonstrate wealth but in reality will push themselves into the lower classes.
It's a nasty ride but we need to make it. UPS and the Teamsters are only a small player in this huge chess game. Odds and time are against you. Good luck.
Notretiredyet
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Years ago I'd collect that much in COD money daily. Had a safe in the cab of the truck.The safes are gone now, still using the trucks.
Fragile
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PT Car Washer
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My building also has a truck with a safe bolted down inside. It is now a spare for when we have breakdowns and I bet no one in the Center would know how to open it.I have a truck that has the safe in it still
rod
Retired 23 years
I had a very popular gun dealer who ran his business out of his house out in the sticks. It was nothing to leave his place most every day with 2 to 5 thousand in cash. We didn't have safes. It was too much to put in my billfold so I would hide it on a shelf in the back under some extra clothes I always carried. I was always a little leary leaving that place and kept a close watch to make sure I wasn't being followed. I would have been an easy target--I wouldn't have resisted at all.
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JL 0513
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I think one of the largest issues with the next contract will deal with health care. It's pretty much certain that unfavorable changes are coming do to the ACA. Starting in 2018, our union "Cadillac Plans" will receive a big new tax. This is a tax that was supposed to be in effect shortly after the bill passed but unions won an exemption until 2018.
A number of things could happen because of this. Will UPS force us to finally contribute to our health care costs just as most Americans do? Or if the union doesn't agree to that will we have our benefits reduced? Higher co-pays? The easy way out for UPS is to drop down to non "Cadillac" plans.
Aside from that, we'll likely see the usual general wage increases.
The idea of a future strike I just don't see. Guys driving around delivering cardboard making around $35/hr (in 2017) and still getting health insurance and building a pension proposing a strike would be ludicrous. When comparing to the majority of what Americans are compensated, it wouldn't make sense.
A number of things could happen because of this. Will UPS force us to finally contribute to our health care costs just as most Americans do? Or if the union doesn't agree to that will we have our benefits reduced? Higher co-pays? The easy way out for UPS is to drop down to non "Cadillac" plans.
Aside from that, we'll likely see the usual general wage increases.
The idea of a future strike I just don't see. Guys driving around delivering cardboard making around $35/hr (in 2017) and still getting health insurance and building a pension proposing a strike would be ludicrous. When comparing to the majority of what Americans are compensated, it wouldn't make sense.
By The Book
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So now you've paid for their taxes in advance and got screwed twice, that's bs.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
If that's the case why did the IBT fold like a cheap tent last contract?
Mugarolla
Light 'em up!
Don't know what insurance you have, but for most UPS employees, it is Teamcare.
A few have different plans, but the majority is Teamcare and it is NOT a Cadillac Plan.
Bottom rung
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Let's try this version.
MAKAVELI
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It really is bs. Our plans never met that threshold to be considered a Cadillac plan. It was merely an excuse by FedEx to pass on more costs to its employees.
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