R.I.P. Ron Carey

[rod]

Don't remind us!

I'll out live you

 

[542thruNthru]

I'll out live you

Just out of spite!

 

[P£INinY0uR***UnionGuy8564]

Just out of spite!

Could be a good motivator

 

[ski or die]

I was a Local 710 Union Steward for Clerical. In 97, the company was trying to remove all union clerical positions nationwide. They had started to move work to North Carolina in a former Kmart, a right to work state. Hiring non-union employees who had no knowledge of how UPS worked. The company offered all union clerical the opportunity to follow their work to Johnson City Tennessee. Some locals followed their work and were forced to work in cold house trailers in winter and hot in summer. Several union stewards around the nation and I kept in contact working together to write grievances every week to stop the transfer of work. My local Business Agent would not help at all to try to prevent losing union jobs. All communications with other stewards were long distance calls at our expense as at that time, free long distance calls were not available like now. I finally was able to get a one on one meeting with Ron Carey in Louisville Kentucky. He promised he would address the issue. In the new contract, it was agreed upon all union clerical positions would remain until each union employee retired. I have seen on this forum recently that many clerical positions are gone. Also, some such as Customer Counters are being eliminated. This was not the agreement made in 1997. Several union stewards and I fought hard to keep these positions. Its interesting that the union is always looking to unionize companies for growth, but failed to keep these clerical positions. I believe Ron Carey would have stood up to the company to prevent this.

 

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I was a Local 710 Union Steward for Clerical. In 97, the company was trying to remove all union clerical positions nationwide. They had started to move work to North Carolina in a former Kmart, a right to work state. Hiring non-union employees who had no knowledge of how UPS worked. The company offered all union clerical the opportunity to follow their work to Johnson City Tennessee. Some locals followed their work and were forced to work in cold house trailers in winter and hot in summer. Several union stewards around the nation and I kept in contact working together to write grievances every week to stop the transfer of work. My local Business Agent would not help at all to try to prevent losing union jobs. All communications with other stewards were long distance calls at our expense as at that time, free long distance calls were not available like now. I finally was able to get a one on one meeting with Ron Carey in Louisville Kentucky. He promised he would address the issue. In the new contract, it was agreed upon all union clerical positions would remain until each union employee retired. I have seen on this forum recently that many clerical positions are gone. Also, some such as Customer Counters are being eliminated. This was not the agreement made in 1997. Several union stewards and I fought hard to keep these positions. Its interesting that the union is always looking to unionize companies for growth, but failed to keep these clerical positions. I believe Ron Carey would have stood up to the company to prevent this.

Deals were made, Hoffa was in power and the company knew they had their patsy. The leadership sold out the Clerical and Inside 22-2’s decades ago in order to appease their members and bootlick the Company decisions. There was no fight once Carey left, Hoffa in his 25 + years never even came close to a picket line. There are a lot of reasons why the Company wants to get rid of every inside position and apparently the Union has certified that action. There are also documented discriminatory reprisals against the Clerical Classifications, most of them were swept under the rug because they were such a small minority and the leadership didn’t give a damn what happened to them. Like you I been at this for a while, crying in the wilderness, it never worked nobody listened or cared. All Clerical work is going the way of Porters, transferred to non union counters and OMS’s it was decided years ago.

 

[Covemastah]

RIP to almost everyone who posted in this thread.

Literally only @rod is still kicking lol

Still here

 

[Covemastah]

He was probably in elementary school when his nana bought him that shirt