What Contract…

[AKCoverMan]

I would not have had any hours for a sixth day most every week since Mid October when we get our Permanent Fund Dividend. That always jump starts peak season for us here in The Last Frontier!

 

[MECH-lift]

Only Saturdays I worked were two in Dec we all worked because of having been shut down one weekday each week due to weather. We had excavator dig out our driveway snow was blown six feet high against garage door.

We had lot of long nights but no six day weeks. (We don’t normally have any service here Saturday.)

Alaska?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Alaska?

Cleveland...

 

[AKCoverMan]

Do Alaskan residents still get oil royalties?

Was biggest payout ever this year.. $3284.

 

[AKCoverMan]

Alaska?

Let’s just say that I can state from personal experience that you cannot see Russia from Sarah Palin’s backyard.

But there is a nice lake.

 

[MECH-lift]

Let’s just say that I can state from personal experience that you cannot see Russia from Sarah Palin’s backyard.

But there is a nice lake.

What’s a gallon of milk cost?
I always look at YouTube Alaska shopping videos and prices ridiculous

$60 for a watermelon

 

[MECH-lift]

Cleveland...

Stay the away from there gumbo

 

[Wally]

Picking up a UPS labeled package and transporting it. It’s s form of subcontracting driver work.

UPS already offers pickup of packages…with uniformed Teamsters in UPS package cars.

Just change the pickup address to the location the parcel taxi is taking it to. This way UPS has zero involvement until it gets to that point.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Was biggest payout ever this year.. $3284.

Nice, that's enough for a dozen eggs and a full tank of gas

 

[Thebrownblob]

Grievance for what?

 

[AKCoverMan]

What’s a gallon of milk cost?
I always look at YouTube Alaska shopping videos and prices ridiculous

$60 for a watermelon

Milk in the high $4s a gallon here but it’s big spread between prices on the road system and prices in the bush.

in Barrow can pay like $20 for a damn frozen pizza!

 

[MECH-lift]

UPS IS SUBCONTRACTING WORK OUT GUYS LETS STRIKE!


::crickets chirping::

 

[MECH-lift]

Milk in the high $4s a gallon here but it’s big spread between prices on the road system and prices in the bush.

in Barrow can pay like $20 for a damn frozen pizza!

Do you have a snowmobile?

 

[AKCoverMan]

Just change the pickup address to the location the parcel taxi is taking it to. This way UPS has zero involvement until it gets to that point.

Cust already has label by time they set up doordash

 

[AKCoverMan]

Do you have a snowmobile?

I do not but they are fun.

 

[MECH-lift]

I do not but they are fun.

My buddy had a 1986 Polaris we use to ride in down the road ( no snow involved)

 

[Thebrownblob]

UPS IS SUBCONTRACTING WORK OUT GUYS LETS STRIKE!


::crickets chirping::

If you read the contract, it doesn’t say there will be “no”subcontracting it just Has to be covered in the contract. The company is calling PVDs “seasonals drivers” and that is covered. Clearly they’re using vague language. I don’t see any provision for these pick ups to be made by someone else.

 

[AKCoverMan]

Do you have a snowmobile?

Could use one for some deliveries! But my 4x4 does well. If I have to use chains and 4x4 you probably won’t get package today but I’ll drive by tomorrow and see if you’ve plowed.

 

[MECH-lift]

Could use one for some deliveries! But my 4x4 does well. If I have to use chains and 4x4 you probably won’t get package today but I’ll drive by tomorrow and see if you’ve plowed.

Your package cars have 4x4?

 

[AKCoverMan]

If you read the contract, it doesn’t say there will be “no”subcontracting it just Has to be covered in the contract. The company is calling PVDs “seasonals drivers” and that is covered. Clearly they’re using vague language. I don’t see any provision for these pick ups to be made by someone else.

And that language and pvd use has been grieved and to arbitration and ups was told go back to table and negotiate. I believe with new contract coming both sides just kicked the can for peak 2022.

Frankly I can see using Pvds at peak but there need to be contracted limits to use (I.e resi only, no pickups, no hazmat, no irregs) and minimum safety and training standards that today are not being met.

Unmarked vehicles , ununiformed drivers going into rural properties late in evening is a good way to get shot at.