BAD NEWS: UPS just threatened to train "new hires" so they don't have to raise wages

[I GOT ONE MORE]

I passed my pension requirements for the year at the end of May. Teamcare coverage continues where I am in my region, even while on strike.

So you got the 500 hours to count for a contributory year, but there’s no way you max out your 2080

 

[BeachBoy]

So you got the 500 hours to count for a contributory year, but there’s no way you max out your 2080

No, I actually passed my 800, currently approaching 1100.

 

[Dirk Digler 2]

So you got the 500 hours to count for a contributory year, but there’s no way you max out your 2080

Suggestion , learn the contract before you come on here and explain it .

 

[I GOT ONE MORE]

Suggestion , learn the contract before you come on here and explain it .

Okie dokie

 

[Johney]

We kept our health care in 97.

 

[BrownSnowFlake]

I don’t know but this game of chicken is going to put a lot of people out of work. The sad part is if we go on strike this company will never be the same The sad part is all of these people that are all excited about having a strike they just get what they were asking for and in the end if a lot of us lose jobs out of this boy, I challenge anyone to go find a job that we have now with the wages and benefits. So sad.

Why don’t you just go to college and get a real job? Are you too poor or too stupid?

 

[PT Car Washer]

No, I actually passed my 800, currently approaching 1100.

Me also. None of the FT I work with are even close.

 

[Over70irregs]

Enjoy the red tagged equipment! Every truck in our fleet has something that needs fixed, something that’s being put off. July 31 is the day to tag it for repair.

Maximum DVIR assessments

 

[Over70irregs]

what’s up with people on here constantly asking us to compare our wage and benefits to grocery stores?

Grocery stores literally have one of, if not the least profit of any business in america

Meanwhile UPS is the most successful logistics company in the world with the most powerful union in the country

How about you shut up and go lick some more corporate boots

Dang

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

Isn't 800 preload job openings about normal for August?

They’re about 100,000 too short. Ha

 

[eats packages]

So you got the 500 hours to count for a contributory year, but there’s no way you max out your 2080

I can do diddly squat until Nov. 15 and still have 2080 in the bank LOL.

 

[Commercial Inside Release]

They’re about 100,000 too short. Ha

I figure you are kidding, but of course those job listings are open listings for multiple hires.
800 X 10, 100, or maybe 1,000 in Chicago.

 

[542thruNthru]

Suggestion , learn the contract before you come on here and explain it .

Suggestion... learn that there are 17 different pensions and how they work across the country and multiple different health and welfare spelled out in many different supplements across the country.

30 years with the company? I bet I've forgotten more about the contract then you've ever known. Lol

 

[Coldworld]

Suggestion... learn that there are 17 different pensions and how they work across the country and multiple different health and welfare spelled out in many different supplements across the country.

30 years with the company? I bet I've forgotten more about the contract then you've ever known. Lol

 

[moldsporh]

Just to clarify not sure what my wage was in 1980 but in 1982 starting PT wages were $8/hr unskilled and $9/hr skilled and preload. Several Dollars less then what I was making.

Yeah, that stayed for quite awhile.

Not saying current PT's shouldn't be paid more, but when current PT loaders try to compare to PT loaders before EDD..they likely have no idea how it was.

Imagine current loaders having to keep track of stop counts for each PC along with not having a neat little label telling them what PC each package goes on AND what shelf and location.

It was different times, our "skilled labor" was a bit different.

There was no going to another pull and cleaning up quick, you stood there in front of a monster pile of boxes picking through very slowly.

So $9 hr starting was a good rate, but you definitely worked for it. EDD was huge help for preloaders for sure.

 

[vvv]

Na , I got 30 years in, the contracts aren’t a mystery to me anymore young man .

Another beer for you!! Tell him how it is brother.

 

[vvv]

Finally, some are getting it.
Negotiating 101 is not punishing a company or bringing it to its knees.
His quotes.
Enjoy your vacation.

So what you are saying is you would cherish the thought of being the one to keep maintaining the kneeling position instead of the company.

Question.....do you swallow or spit?

 

[Wally]

 

[I GOT ONE MORE]

Yeah, that stayed for quite awhile.

Not saying current PT's shouldn't be paid more, but when current PT loaders try to compare to PT loaders before EDD..they likely have no idea how it was.

Imagine current loaders having to keep track of stop counts for each PC along with not having a neat little label telling them what PC each package goes on AND what shelf and location.

It was different times, our "skilled labor" was a bit different.

There was no going to another pull and cleaning up quick, you stood there in front of a monster pile of boxes picking through very slowly.

So $9 hr starting was a good rate, but you definitely worked for it. EDD was huge help for preloaders for sure.

Exactly my point for all the years I was there.
UPS has been slowly making way to kick the Union out.
Imagine a UPS where all the drama every 4-5 years vanishes.
No more pension payments, no more premium medical, no more lazy employees (you are fired), no more 50$ hour.
The writing’s been on the wall for awhile.

 

[over9five]

Friday July 14th, 18:00PDT
Just heard on a national news affiliate... UPS waited until after hours, to announce they will have no plans to pay more, and will train new hires to get through the strike. Written news stories and broadcast news will probably start running the story tonight or tomorrow.

Nobody, no company, in their right mind is going to believe UPS can continue to provide service during a strike.