Softconcrete
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What happens if we do go on strike? I heard we get strike pay? is it we get half the rate we were making?
what happens if we do go on strike?
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frivolous petty small.
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It's basically half of nothing.
Atomic_Smurf
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$55 bucks a week! Thats pretty good money for standing around a burning barrel talking about how awesome it is to have a Democrat president with historical skin supporting the union & fixing our health care. Lets hope that doesn't happen.
av8torntn
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What happened last time. I went and got another job for a few weeks. The choice was a) stand on a picket line for 25 hours a week for a $55 check or b) earn a living somewhere else or c) cross the picket line.
My opinion was that crossing the picket line was not a choice so I went to work somewhere else and put in time on the picket line around my new schedule. At our local you had to sign in and out of the picket line and put in a minimum amount of time to get their little check.
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For the 55 bucks. I'll be spending it on a beer run. It is really a slap in the face. Rather not get it. Just a good deal. For all of us to keep making money.
East coast navy
Veteran
It's $250 or $255 not sure.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
It will be raining leprechauns and Lucky Charms before we go on strike again. As it's been stated before, UPS has too much invested in Hoffa Junior and vice-versa for a strike to happen. UPS just isn't going to let Hoffa out of their back pocket. Which is bad news for us, regarding our contract. No one wants to strike, so expect the javelin to hit us all in the shorts before too long.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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It is nowhere near those estimates----it was $55/week in 1997.
I did the same as av8torntn---one of my customers owns a construction company and he agreed to hire me for the duration of the strike. Worked 46 of the hardest hours I had worked in a long time for the grand sum of $253. When I told him how much I would have earned at UPS for those same 46 hours he couldn't believe it.
There will not be a strike.
rod
Retired 23 years
If I recall right we got 55 bucks week strike pay and you had to turn around and pay back about 75 bucks a week to keep the medical insurance up. Its not how much you will lose while on strike its how much you will lose for the rest of your UPS career if you just roll over and play dead. The secret is to plan ahead and save enough to exist for 2 or 3 weeks (maybe a month) if a strike happens (you should have that saved up and MORE at all times anyway). UPS strikes don't last that long. Actually its a good time to sit back, have a few cold ones and watch the circus and the games that are played by both sides during a strike. Everyone should go through at least one strike in their career just so you appreciate what those who went before you fought for.
DRACULA,
You HAVE ZERO knowledge of current negotiations and those of prior negotiations. In 1997, the company maintained the EXACT approach as they are taking today.
So far, come this sunday, March 31st, the TEAMSTERS are walking away from negotiations and have NO INTEREST in scheduling further negotiations for any reasons. At that point, the COMPANY will have to withdraw its current proposals and RE PROPOSE an entirely different offer to the TEAMSTERS.
The Teamsters have made their offer and will not budge on it. The company has offered it proposals and are not budging.
Where you see DAYLIGHT in this scenario is beyond me. If you want to tell us that you are comfortable with "happy talk" cause it makes you feel good, then ok, but in reality, no matter what criteria is currently the case with financials, it does not change the circumstances of our current negotiations.
In other words. YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THE
YOUR TALKING ABOUT.Peace
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Dracula,
You've spoken like a true prodigy. Hoffa Jr., will never have the balls to strike UPS. As I write this comment he's out on the golf course working on his handicap with Scott Davis and the union are covering the tab. Hoffa Jr., and his disciple hall are gutless cowards that will sell us out when this is all set and done!
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hall,a gutless coward???? We have made TONS of money under the contracts he has negotiated,and i'll betcha we make a great deal under the soon to be settled contract.
you guys are killing me
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same here brother. I had wads saved up because we KNEW we'd be striiking. I was just out of whack not havinga routine so i picked up work with a Temp agency and then walked the line.The best part was following some of the scab drivers and picketing them on the routes
Hoffa and Hall will not sell us out !!!! Had to be management that made that comment. NOT $90, NOT $9, NOT $ .09 !!!!!
If a part time preloader is making $12 per hour x 20 hrs = $240 gross. Not a lot of money and then to pay for insurance.
I know drivers work their ***** off, but if you haven't loaded in a few years, it ain't like it use to be. Preloaders earn every penny and all the benefits !!!
I just don't see preloaders working without benefits at UPS.
STRIKE and let the chips fall where they may. Obamas creating socialism anyway and America is letting him. The rich don't care right now, but when the dollar is worth squat soon, they'll be in the same boat during the New World Order.
If a part time preloader is making $12 per hour x 20 hrs = $240 gross. Not a lot of money and then to pay for insurance.
I know drivers work their ***** off, but if you haven't loaded in a few years, it ain't like it use to be. Preloaders earn every penny and all the benefits !!!
I just don't see preloaders working without benefits at UPS.
STRIKE and let the chips fall where they may. Obamas creating socialism anyway and America is letting him. The rich don't care right now, but when the dollar is worth squat soon, they'll be in the same boat during the New World Order.
East coast navy
Veteran
250 is what we would get now. Not in 97.
Reserve would be gone in a week at that rate!
