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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 482055" data-attributes="member: 14668">In order to get anything done, you are going to have to unite with the other Committees nationwide, start making some demands, and be willing to withold participation until those demands are met.&nbsp;Simply playing UPS&#039;s games and working &quot;within the system&quot; isnt going to get anything done.&nbsp;UPS is required by law to have a Safety Committee. The are not required to allow it to accomplish anything. Your only power comes from being willing to refuse to cooperate or participate. &nbsp;We have a union contract because, as a union, we made demands and were ultimately willing to withold our labor unless UPS agreed to bargain in good faith. If we negotiated our contracts the same way we run our Safety Committees, we would all be earning minimum wage.&nbsp;UPS sets and controls the agenda for its Safety Committees. You need to take control back. Otherwise, we will continue to be stuck with what we currently have...hundreds of uncoordinated Committees nationwide doing nothing but inventing new acronyms and endlessly debating whether to buy socks or doughnuts with their &quot;safety money&quot; while the relevant issues (vehicles, equipment, dispatches, time allowances) continue to be ignored.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 482055, member: 14668"] In order to get anything done, you are going to have to unite with the other Committees nationwide, start making some [U]demands,[/U] and be willing to withold participation until those demands are met. Simply playing UPS's games and working "within the system" isnt going to get anything done. UPS is required by law to have a Safety Committee. The are not required to allow it to accomplish anything. Your only power comes from being willing to refuse to cooperate or participate. We have a union contract because, as a union, we made demands and were ultimately willing to withold our labor unless UPS agreed to bargain in good faith. If we negotiated our contracts the same way we run our Safety Committees, we would all be earning minimum wage. UPS sets and controls the agenda for its Safety Committees. You need to take control back. Otherwise, we will continue to be stuck with what we currently have...hundreds of uncoordinated Committees nationwide doing nothing but inventing new acronyms and endlessly debating whether to buy socks or doughnuts with their "safety money" while the [U]relevant[/U] issues (vehicles, equipment, dispatches, time allowances) continue to be ignored. [/QUOTE]

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