Raise in new contract

[Brownslave688]

Someone with better math skills explain how that would translate to what our raises would need to be to keep up

An immediate raise to 45/46 would get us back on track.

 

[textat3]

It just shows how out of touch with reality CT is when she keeps talking about 95k a year we make….what a joke. Driver sups are pulling in 130k-150k. One of them drives a Bentley.

 

[Brownslave688]

I think they'll be a bigger raise for the part-timers than the full-timers.

Yes we lost some purchasing power over the last couple years but compared to many other people sometimes we forget what we have

So what. We aren’t other people. We have got to stop that thinking. It’s always the older guys too who already made their money and paid stuff off.

The company almost doubled profits over the contract. They doubled dividend payouts. They tripled? stock buy backs.

They are swimming in money. The absolutely bare min anyone should even entertain is getting us back to where we were before this crazy inflation.

 

[Brownslave688]

Not a chance we see anywhere near that. PTers are prob gonna get a big bump like that, but I'm guessing we see $6 over the course of the (presumed five year) contract at best. Most likely around $5 seems more realistic.

Would be pretty cool though.

Anything short of $50 at the end of the contract shouldn’t even be on the table and I don’t think it is.

 

[Pullman Brown]

So what. We aren’t other people. We have to got to stop that thinking. It’s always the older guys too who already made their money and paid stuff off.

The company almost doubled profits over the contract. They doubled dividend payouts. They tripled? stock buy backs.

They are swimming in money. The absolutely bare min anyone should even entertain is getting us back to where we were before this crazy inflation.

In one of her/CEO talks at the beginning of the year, she literally said that the way the company was positioned and what its future plans were that they would be basically printing money. I remember it because at that moment she had this creepy laugh like she was a public official -which is how these CEO’s /corporations are treated anyway with the money they give away.

 

[Wally]

What about the 15% or so of pay we’ve lost over this contract?

Need strong COLA protection for sure.

 

[Brownsocks]

Sure so I can rack up miles on my car, spend more on gas, and turn my 12hr day into a 15 hour day. I just want to be paid fairly for my area. Govt and military pay more around here as well….tell someone you make 100g around here and they feel sorry for you.

I understand that you are unhappy
with your wage and possibly overextended a bit?
I'm not trying to bust your balls, it's just you make more than the median household income for Washington DC with just your income and fall well in the middle-class.
$65hr isn't realistic, so don't get your hopes up.

 

[Over70irregs]

Raises are just tax donations

@Brownslave688 Inflation….?

 

[BrownFlush]

1979 my first year $10.70 per hour
Today's equal amount is $46.91

 

[542thruNthru]

We would need about $65 and hour to live like guys do in Ohio and PA.

Like losers? Come on man you can do better!

 

[Coldworld]

It just shows how out of touch with reality CT is when she keeps talking about 95k a year we make….what a joke. Driver sups are pulling in 130k-150k. One of them drives a Bentley.

Does it have spinner rims??

 

[100%]

And you still won't get $50hr bump at the beginning. Goodluck achieving that at Walmart.

Did you miss the important part? Doesn’t matter what you think I won’t get, I said what ups would get….I’ll walk. That’s the one thing you can bank on. Saying I won’t get this or that is pure speculation.

 

[100%]

And you still won't get $50hr bump at the beginning. Goodluck achieving that at Walmart.

Good luck to yourself. This is my last contract. Grow a pair please.

 

[100%]

Full-time scale drivers will most likely not get more than a 4% raise per year. I would be shocked if it’s more than that it would be a huge win.

Not taking a pay cut. All signs point to the pavement.

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

Does it have spinner rims??

Those are old and busted. The new hotness is floaters

 

[100%]

I hear this narrative a lot and it got me to wondering....

Would the Company be just in arguing conversely that the years that our raises outpaced inflation be considered in this equation as well?

Anybody crunch that data over the past few decades, rather than just the past two years?

We’ve never outpaced inflation.

 

[100%]

What about the 15% or so of pay we’ve lost over this contract?

Exactly. We had 7 years of inflation in one year.

 

[Up In Smoke]

What about the 15% or so of pay we’ve lost over this contract?

Can't argue with you there. We gave up rights and wages galore over the last 4 contracts. If we could also get a bump in benefits contributions, it could edge us closer to 10% in total compensation.,

 

[Thebrownblob]

Not taking a pay cut. All signs point to the pavement.

We’re in the middle of May and we haven’t heard anything about what this negotiating team is pushing for as far as raises. I find that a little curious. Makes me think it will be much closer to the standard 2 to 4% raises we usually receive. I could be wrong though.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

We’re in the middle of May and we haven’t heard anything about what this negotiating team is pushing for as far as raises. I find that a little curious. Makes me think it will be much closer to the standard 2 to 4% raises we usually receive. I could be wrong though.

I think the part timers are going to get a much raise. Honestly the company doesn't have much of a choice