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<blockquote data-quote="DELACROIX" data-source="post: 3717671" data-attributes="member: 49065">I believe that the strike authorization vote was at 23% of the total UPS membership.&nbsp; The general voter turn out for contracts over the last 20 years runs about 40%. I get your point, the only thing we can do is vote and see what happens. The current teamster leadership suffered dearly with the last election due to the fact they imposed some of the supplements without it&#039;s membership having the opportunity to vote.&nbsp; I am presuming that Hoffa will retire before the next IBT election and there will be a jockeying more power. I am guessing that the 23% who voted would be &quot;Nays&quot; and represent mostly senior full timers..As a rule part timers do not vote as a body, most of the newer ones could care less what happens, they can find another job with the same pay, less stress elsewhere and most are covered under their parents Health and Welfare till age 26. Even if somehow the &quot;Master&quot; is voted in or imposed, most of the &quot;Supplements&quot; will go down flaming.&nbsp; It will be a long, long time before this one is settled, in other words those who are voting &quot;yes&quot; just to get in that &quot;fat&quot; retro check, think again before you put down that payment on your new Harley.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DELACROIX, post: 3717671, member: 49065"] I believe that the strike authorization vote was at 23% of the total UPS membership. The general voter turn out for contracts over the last 20 years runs about 40%. I get your point, the only thing we can do is vote and see what happens. The current teamster leadership suffered dearly with the last election due to the fact they imposed some of the supplements without it's membership having the opportunity to vote. I am presuming that Hoffa will retire before the next IBT election and there will be a jockeying more power. I am guessing that the 23% who voted would be "Nays" and represent mostly senior full timers..As a rule part timers do not vote as a body, most of the newer ones could care less what happens, they can find another job with the same pay, less stress elsewhere and most are covered under their parents Health and Welfare till age 26. Even if somehow the "Master" is voted in or imposed, most of the "Supplements" will go down flaming. It will be a long, long time before this one is settled, in other words those who are voting "yes" just to get in that "fat" retro check, think again before you put down that payment on your new Harley. [/QUOTE]

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