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<blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 3599746" data-attributes="member: 14176">No, your eyeballs aren&#039;t deceiving you, but your jaded prejudices and lack of objectivity are clouding your ability to sort through this topic.You see, like you, this was the first thing that I looked for when I opened this link:<a href="http://www.teamsters89.com/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&amp;HomeID=709876" target="_blank">Local 89 UPS Air Contract Negotiations Update</a>....but instead of reacting like this:....I made some phone calls to the stewards I still network with, the same stewards I hand billed with at WorldPort one cold day in February of 2014, on my own time and on my own dime.What I learned didn&#039;t surprise me, and it shouldn&#039;t surprise you either Bug, if you are what you say you are, and have been around as long as you claim.What I know to be true, is that UPS absolutely hates bad press, especially in cities like Atlanta and Louisville, where they have an enormous corporate stature in the local community.So when the Local 89 Air Rider drug on, until being ultimately imposed, and with the shuttle issue on the front burner and widely covered in the local, regional, and national news, UPS saw a need to address it before five more years rolled around, in hopes of avoiding another &quot;black eye&quot;.Since 2014 at the WorldPort facility, new modern climate controlled buses were purchased and put into service.Any shuttle trip in excess of 20 minutes now results in the employees being paid for the difference in time and they are not counted as late.In addition, there&nbsp; is a shuttle committee that meets regularly to address any issues, and to date has been successful in resolving the problems that have surfaced.From what I have gathered, the shuttle is no longer an issue and wasn&#039;t included as a proposal from the membership.....and get this [USER=4992]@BigUnionGuy[/USER], Local 89 had 15 front line rank and file stewards on their negotiating committee.What other committee can say that?~Bbbl~™</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bubblehead, post: 3599746, member: 14176"] No, your eyeballs aren't deceiving you, but your jaded prejudices and lack of objectivity are clouding your ability to sort through this topic. You see, like you, this was the first thing that I looked for when I opened this link: [URL='http://www.teamsters89.com/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=709876']Local 89 UPS Air Contract Negotiations Update[/URL] ....but instead of reacting like this: ....I made some phone calls to the stewards I still network with, the same stewards I hand billed with at WorldPort one cold day in February of 2014, on my own time and on my own dime. What I learned didn't surprise me, and it shouldn't surprise you either Bug, if you are what you say you are, and have been around as long as you claim. What I know to be true, is that UPS absolutely hates bad press, especially in cities like Atlanta and Louisville, where they have an enormous corporate stature in the local community. So when the Local 89 Air Rider drug on, until being ultimately imposed, and with the shuttle issue on the front burner and widely covered in the local, regional, and national news, UPS saw a need to address it before five more years rolled around, in hopes of avoiding another "black eye". Since 2014 at the WorldPort facility, new modern climate controlled buses were purchased and put into service. Any shuttle trip in excess of 20 minutes now results in the employees being paid for the difference in time and they are not counted as late. In addition, there is a shuttle committee that meets regularly to address any issues, and to date has been successful in resolving the problems that have surfaced. From what I have gathered, the shuttle is no longer an issue and wasn't included as a proposal from the membership. ....and get this [USER=4992]@BigUnionGuy[/USER], Local 89 had 15 front line rank and file stewards on their negotiating committee. What other committee can say that? ~Bbbl~™ [/QUOTE]

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