I'm at a center in Illinois and our management can't even staff a Saturday without over 50% of the routes being covered by RPCDs voluntarily coming in to make overtime.
There's no chance the company can operate if there's a strike. We have all the leverage. Hopefully more drivers understand this. How would anything be sorted and loaded for "supposed" pvds without any loaders/sorters/etc. It wouldn't. Even if the company could hypothetically hire a half a million pvds in three days (the union is required to give 72 hour notice if we plan to strike), without the above mentioned part-time employees, nothing would get loaded and sorted and millions of packages would not be picked up. My on road supervisors don't even know how to do 95% of the routes in my center. The higher ups at ups are on crack if they think they can just magicallly continue on without any hiccups if a strike happens. They would be friended.