Robert Reich on 5 ways UPS is screwing us.

[Trailer monkey]

Start part timers at $23 an hour.
LOL

The 1982 $8.00 starting wage is a little over $24 adjusted for inflation, $23 is not out of line at all

 

[olroadbeech]

Man. Some of you people don't remember the lean years after the 97 strike. I was working maybe 2 days a week for a long time. Used to go down to the EEOC ( employment office ) and sign up for day work cleaning houses or doing manual labor for minimum wage.
It's been a feast for so long......not always gonna be that way.

 

[Wally]

...BEFORE SATURDAYS THIS WAS MUCH LESS OF AN ISSUE

Friday?

 

[Wally]

Has Robert Reich ever worked for a company that had to make profit in order to survive?

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[burrheadd]

Man. Some of you people don't remember the lean years after the 97 strike. I was working maybe 2 days a week for a long time. Used to go down to the EEOC ( employment office ) and sign up for day work cleaning houses or doing manual labor for minimum wage.
It's been a feast for so long......not always gonna be that way.

I think you went to the wrong office hun
The EEOC is not the (employment office)
Nice try though

 

[Thebrownblob]

Companies make money off the backs of labor. It's been going on for years.
A profitable company means you can keep coming to work and have the job you do. If you or the company get too greedy, it messes things up big time.
Negotiations 101.

Yep ask UAW.

 

[BrownFlush]

Yep ask UAW.

Steelworkers, too..

 

[BrownFlush]

Man. Some of you people don't remember the lean years after the 97 strike. I was working maybe 2 days a week for a long time. Used to go down to the EEOC ( employment office ) and sign up for day work cleaning houses or doing manual labor for minimum wage.
It's been a feast for so long......not always gonna be that way.

After the strike, it was hell for a good while.
They tried to kill us. They were pissed.
In a month after the strike, I was even money, if not ahead after the three week vacation.

 

[Thebrownblob]

After the strike, it was hell for a good while.
They tried to kill us. They were pissed.
In a month after the strike, I was even money, if not ahead after the three week vacation.

I was actually part time during the strike, first couple weeks back were slow after that it was 9-12 hours a day until I went full-time.

 

[Misthios]

That's more than what the starting wage is for a driver

It’s just a starting number because we gotta figure out a way to fix this.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

It’s just a starting number because we gotta figure out a way to fix this.

This company wants to outsource every job there is Union and management.

And do you think it's a coincidence that all of the contracts are up at the same time?

Pilots, mechanics and package?

 

[BrownFlush]

This company wants to outsource every job there is Union and management.

Fedx Ground.
Yeah, there's a business model to follow.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Fedx Ground.
Yeah, there's a business model to follow.

I'm only telling the truth

 

[Dr.Brownz]

Companies make money off the backs of labor. It's been going on for years.
A profitable company means you can keep coming to work and have the job you do. If you or the company get too greedy, it messes things up big time.
Negotiations 101.

Billions in profits every single year.

 

[BrownFlush]

Billions in profits every single year.

What's your point?

 

[Whither]

What's your point?

Don't get cozy with the way things are or you wind up making excuses for the company ...

 

[Whither]

Yep ask UAW.

Steelworkers, too..

Love how both the examples were unions "getting too greedy" ...

 

[BrownFlush]

Love how both the examples were unions "getting too greedy" ...

Not true.
If you work for a company, that bargains themselves to bankruptcy, you work for idiots.

Don't get cozy with the way things are or you wind up making excuses for the company ...

Cozy?
So, you want to work for a profitable company, you just don't want them to make too much. Buy stock and quit bitchin'.

 

[BrownFlush]

I'm only telling the truth

With what has been leaking through the cracks the last 10 - 15 years, you ought not be surprised at the flood that's pouring in.

 

[Whither]

Not true.
If you work for a company, that bargains themselves to bankruptcy, you work for idiots.

Cozy?
So, you want to work for a profitable company, you just don't want them to make too much. Buy stock and quit bitchin'.

We work for a corporate idiocracy that nevertheless rakes in windfall profits.

I'm not interested in stock market speculation, but freedom for all workers instead of lifelong indenture to this idiotic way of living. Quit drinking the kool-aid.