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<blockquote data-quote="SandBagger" data-source="post: 1453066" data-attributes="member: 11242">!!!!Touchdown Bubblehead!!!! There is no contract language in any supplement that I have read thus far which requires any employee to work on a &quot;legal holiday&quot;, with the exception of Article 40 workers and package drivers required to supplement the air deliveries. Granted, I have not read every supplement, but I seriously doubt the language is there in any of them because the company did not forsee the need to include it prior to last Christmas. By then the current MA had already been offered, voted, and ratified with nothing outstanding except supplemental agreements in all but a few locals. Jimmy Jr. announced compulsory implementation nationwide and sealed the deal until 2018 for everyone, and the company cheered. Then came Amazon and the winter of 2013.Sorry El Heffe, but your misinterpretation of the contract legalese is woefully inaccurate and misleading. When you finish soaking up all the cash you can extract from UPS mindlessly working your life away at the expense of irreplaceble family time, consider a career in union leadership. Most of them make a good living keeping the confused confused. Just remember to funnel at least 25% of that overtime pay into the federal coffers to keep the national handouts coming for those too lazy to work. They appreciate your dedication more than Uncle Buster and those, by-the-way, will be the ones you and some of your co-workers will be dodging (drunks) on Black Friday.Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SandBagger, post: 1453066, member: 11242"] !!!!Touchdown Bubblehead!!!! There is no contract language in any supplement that I have read thus far which requires any employee to work on a "legal holiday", with the exception of Article 40 workers and package drivers required to supplement the air deliveries. Granted, I have not read every supplement, but I seriously doubt the language is there in any of them because the company did not forsee the need to include it prior to last Christmas. By then the current MA had already been offered, voted, and ratified with nothing outstanding except supplemental agreements in all but a few locals. Jimmy Jr. announced compulsory implementation nationwide and sealed the deal until 2018 for everyone, and the company cheered. Then came Amazon and the winter of 2013. Sorry El Heffe, but your misinterpretation of the contract legalese is woefully inaccurate and misleading. When you finish soaking up all the cash you can extract from UPS mindlessly working your life away at the expense of irreplaceble family time, consider a career in union leadership. Most of them make a good living keeping the confused confused. Just remember to funnel at least 25% of that overtime pay into the federal coffers to keep the national handouts coming for those too lazy to work. They appreciate your dedication more than Uncle Buster and those, by-the-way, will be the ones you and some of your co-workers will be dodging (drunks) on Black Friday. Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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