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<blockquote data-quote="reydluap" data-source="post: 1090009" data-attributes="member: 1583">So many good post since my last post.&nbsp;rudy5150,&nbsp; The last driver hired here in my center last year was actually a transfer air shuttle driver from a Center 25 miles up the road from here. None of the part timers here want to be a full time employee with UPS. You see, these part timers here want a &quot;PART TIME&quot; job. They are farmers, a chiropractor, an electrician, a grandmother, a house painter, a Flight Instructor, a stay at home dad, a fast food worker, a race car engine builder, a banker, plenty of students and so many other occupations. They took the job for the excellent benefits, not as a career choice. Some people understand what a part time job is.&nbsp;Now I respect and agree that a couple of buck pay raise for part timers is over due.&nbsp; And, paying a part timer even more if they choose not to be covered under the UPS insurance plan sounds like a fair deal.&nbsp; But the &quot;PART TIMERS&quot;&nbsp; better watch what they are asking for. It might just bite you in the butt. Think a minute outside the box, like you are in the UPS Company&#039;s shoes. What if UPS Company said they wanted to create a longer hour guaranteed &quot;PART TIME&quot; job enviroment by creating another Article in the contract. It would be a &quot;PART TIME&quot; version of a Article 22.3 job. Stay with me here. Let&#039;s say the UPS Company says they want to have part timers guaranteed 5 hours a shift with a maximum of 7 hours before time and a half wages were to be paid.&nbsp; No more than 36 hours a week could ever be attained. That will merge 2 part time employees down to one. So UPS Company saves money on training and benefits. Turn over rate lowers because you are getting more hours and making a few more bucks. Sounds like a plan, ehhh. But that puts a lot of your fellow part time works out on the streets. Are you selling those displaced workers out? Only you can decide.&nbsp;Now the down side of the idea. UPS Company will just try to get three (current) part time employees work out of the merged two part time jobs that have just been created. Look at what happens to the drivers when the numbers don&#039;t look right on paper, they cut a route and load them up. The same thing would be done to this newly created part time job. You talk about having a ball buster of a newly created job!&nbsp;Don&#039;t think one minute at businesses are not looking at this idea. Obamacare will create a &quot;tax&quot; on businesses for every employee they have at the rate of 3.6% (might be 3.8%,I don&#039;t remember exactly) to help pay for the National Health Care program. You don&#039;t really think UPS Company wants to pay any more tax or benefits than they have to. do you? They would be smart to create this type of job to cut &quot;the head count&quot; of employees the that they will have to pay &quot;tax&quot; on. Just think about it........</blockquote>

[QUOTE="reydluap, post: 1090009, member: 1583"] So many good post since my last post. rudy5150, The last driver hired here in my center last year was actually a transfer air shuttle driver from a Center 25 miles up the road from here. None of the part timers here want to be a full time employee with UPS. You see, these part timers here want a "PART TIME" job. They are farmers, a chiropractor, an electrician, a grandmother, a house painter, a Flight Instructor, a stay at home dad, a fast food worker, a race car engine builder, a banker, plenty of students and so many other occupations. They took the job for the excellent benefits, not as a career choice. Some people understand what a part time job is. Now I respect and agree that a couple of buck pay raise for part timers is over due. And, paying a part timer even more if they choose not to be covered under the UPS insurance plan sounds like a fair deal. But the "PART TIMERS" better watch what they are asking for. It might just bite you in the butt. Think a minute outside the box, like you are in the UPS Company's shoes. What if UPS Company said they wanted to create a longer hour guaranteed "PART TIME" job enviroment by creating another Article in the contract. It would be a "PART TIME" version of a Article 22.3 job. Stay with me here. Let's say the UPS Company says they want to have part timers guaranteed 5 hours a shift with a maximum of 7 hours before time and a half wages were to be paid. No more than 36 hours a week could ever be attained. That will merge 2 part time employees down to one. So UPS Company saves money on training and benefits. Turn over rate lowers because you are getting more hours and making a few more bucks. Sounds like a plan, ehhh. But that puts a lot of your fellow part time works out on the streets. Are you selling those displaced workers out? Only you can decide. Now the down side of the idea. UPS Company will just try to get three (current) part time employees work out of the merged two part time jobs that have just been created. Look at what happens to the drivers when the numbers don't look right on paper, they cut a route and load them up. The same thing would be done to this newly created part time job. You talk about having a ball buster of a newly created job! Don't think one minute at businesses are not looking at this idea. Obamacare will create a "tax" on businesses for every employee they have at the rate of 3.6% (might be 3.8%,I don't remember exactly) to help pay for the National Health Care program. You don't really think UPS Company wants to pay any more tax or benefits than they have to. do you? They would be smart to create this type of job to cut "the head count" of employees the that they will have to pay "tax" on. Just think about it........ [/QUOTE]

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