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<blockquote data-quote="turdburglar" data-source="post: 1127285" data-attributes="member: 41722">As a part-timer, I am quite insulted at what will apparently be a $1.00 per hour increase to the starting part-time rate. That makes $9.50, which is what I started at with the skilled position differential. It is exactly the same as going backwards for a lot of part-timers. Part-time poverty will continue at UPS if this contract is ratified. Maybe it is just the demographics of the membership of this board, but it seems like far too many people are happy with what full-timers are getting, while ignoring the fact that their fellow union brothers and sisters doing part-time work are still getting screwed after 30 years. It has always been the full-timers voting &quot;yes&quot; to the contracts of the past where part-timers were getting screwed. It has to stop sometime, and now is the best time, when the company is making record profits in a relatively slow economy.I know that many full-timers will argue that part-timers need to use their vote, go to union meetings, etc., but it is hard to care when we make so little for the (arguably) more difficult work that we do compared to what full-timers make. It will be even harder for the more informed part-timers to care if this contract is ratified. Knowing that part-timers do not vote in nearly as substantial numbers as full-timers, it really is up to the full-timers whether or not part-timers continue to get screwed. As a part-timer, I know what my vote will be, and I know what I will tell all my fellow union brothers and sisters in the facility in which I work to vote. I implore full-timers to do the same. The company (and the union) can do much better than this for part-timers, and there truly is no better time than now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="turdburglar, post: 1127285, member: 41722"] As a part-timer, I am quite insulted at what will apparently be a $1.00 per hour increase to the starting part-time rate. That makes $9.50, which is what I started at with the skilled position differential. It is exactly the same as going backwards for a lot of part-timers. Part-time poverty will continue at UPS if this contract is ratified. Maybe it is just the demographics of the membership of this board, but it seems like far too many people are happy with what full-timers are getting, while ignoring the fact that their fellow union brothers and sisters doing part-time work are still getting screwed after 30 years. It has always been the full-timers voting "yes" to the contracts of the past where part-timers were getting screwed. It has to stop sometime, and now is the best time, when the company is making record profits in a relatively slow economy. I know that many full-timers will argue that part-timers need to use their vote, go to union meetings, etc., but it is hard to care when we make so little for the (arguably) more difficult work that we do compared to what full-timers make. It will be even harder for the more informed part-timers to care if this contract is ratified. Knowing that part-timers do not vote in nearly as substantial numbers as full-timers, it really is up to the full-timers whether or not part-timers continue to get screwed. As a part-timer, I know what my vote will be, and I know what I will tell all my fellow union brothers and sisters in the facility in which I work to vote. I implore full-timers to do the same. The company (and the union) can do much better than this for part-timers, and there truly is no better time than now. [/QUOTE]

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