UPS CEO: Thanks to automation, we're shipping more packages with the same number of people

[Brownslave688]

Was referring to the amount per person contributed based off the conversation of the first 8hrs only counting.

What?

 

[Wally]

What?

8 hour flat pension contribution.

 

[Jackburton]

8 hour flat pension contribution.

Another point to expand on top of that, when you go on vacation, you are paid 45hrs, yet only 40 are counted as pension contributions.

Our union needs to lay these facts on the table out in the open and stop dancing around them. I know math isn’t most members strong suit, but the devil is in the details.

If we can negotiate on the basis of reality instead of hypothesis, maybe we can actually get a contract both sides can work with to make sure the employee is taken care of, as well as the company.

 

[Faceplanted]

How can a drivers helper go to their next stop unless he or she is in a truck with a driver?

If all by themselves, they are a driver, not a helper.

Nothing gets past u!!!

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

Another point to expand on top of that, when you go on vacation, you are paid 45hrs, yet only 40 are counted as pension contributions.

Our union needs to lay these facts on the table out in the open and stop dancing around them. I know math isn’t most members strong suit, but the devil is in the details.

If we can negotiate on the basis of reality instead of hypothesis, maybe we can actually get a contract both sides can work with to make sure the employee is taken care of, as well as the company.

So true!

 

[Dhydratd]

How can UPS petition the DOT to change our max work week from 60 to 70 hours? Isn't 60 hours the law?

 

[Brownslave688]

How can UPS petition the DOT to change our max work week from 60 to 70 hours? Isn't 60 hours the law?

You should read up on the law.

 

[clean hairy]

What I see with the "getting more work done with the same # of employees" is REALLY saying, "What could go wrong?"
We saw what happened almost every time when Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear would say the words
"How hard could it be?"
Or, when he would say "What could go wrong"

 

[Dhydratd]

You should read up on the law.

Thank you for your informative answer.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

This job has always required OT. Asking for double time after 8 is asking too much.

While it is certainly not a 9-5 job there has never been mandated overtime outside of Peak.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

How can a drivers helper go to their next stop unless he or she is in a truck with a driver?

If all by themselves, they are a driver, not a helper.

Handcart w/packages.

 

[Brownslave688]

Thank you for your informative answer.

Type in "DOT hours of service law" into your search bar then click search.


Hope this helps.

 

[TearsInRain]

staffing isn't the problem now, the problem is a ton of buildings are beyond their Peak capacity limits

from a pure volume perspective he's right we don't need more staffing than LY; from a capacity bottleneck or driver-turnover perspective we need more bodies lol

 

[Dhydratd]

While it is certainly not a 9-5 job there has never been mandated overtime outside of Peak.

Maybe not in the bog, but everywhere else overtime is forced upon drivers. Why do you think there was a need for the 9.5 list?

 

[burrheadd]

While it is certainly not a 9-5 job there has never been mandated overtime outside of Peak.

So, you just bring the load back in 8 hours
If your not feeling it

 

[babboo25]

I'll still bring back 80 stops at 1030...think I care?

Go work at McDonald’s, that’s where you belong, lazy Turd.

 

[MyTripisCut]

Go work at McDonald’s, that’s where you belong, lazy Turd.

Pretty sure he does over 400 stops per day during peak. He’s not lazy.

 

[dookie stain]

Go work at McDonald’s, that’s where you belong, lazy Turd.

Hmmmm...as appealing as that sounds...I'll do my fair days work for a fair days pay...just because the company fails to prepare for peak EVERY YEAR doesn't mean I'm gonna kill myself to bail them
Out

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Link:
UPS CEO: Thanks to automation, we're shipping more packages with the same number of people

"The upcoming holiday period is shaping up to be another record-breaking shipping season. In fact, United Parcel Service (UPS) forecasts 750 million packages will be delivered between Black Friday and New Year’s Eve, a 5% increase from last year.
Despite the expected increase in volume, UPS expects to hire the same number of temporary seasonal workers as last year (95,000).

“Last year we hired about the same number of people and we’re doing it this year with an extra 5% of packages and it is because of automation,” UPS CEO David Abney told Yahoo Finance."

UPS is projecting more volume, but will be using the same amount of people.

For those of us that were working 14 hour days and forced 6th punches, aren't these comforting words from our CEO. Just think what happens if we have weather like in 2013.

He also said the new app to help "driver helpers" use their phones to deliver will also give them directions to their next stop...

Hmm...Driver helpers who drive to their next stop. Sounds like scab PVDs.

Great plan for peak.

Just like the telephone company, used to have tons of operators and long distance phone calls were expensive as Hell.

Now they barely have any operators and long distance phone calls are almost nothing.

 

[Brownslave688]

Just like the telephone company, used to have tons of operators and long distance phone calls were expensive as Hell.

Now they barely have any operators and long distance phone calls are almost nothing.

So free shipping for everyone?