tellitstraight
Active Member
Hello 767mech could you also address the following questions?
Fact : We haven't asked for anything yet
-- then this is not a negotiation, what has been going on for the past two years?
Fact: We are the highest paid in the airline industry
-- agreed - and nothing to be ashamed of.
Fact UPS is unbelievably profitable.
-- True but not so much right now, a profitable UPS means a secure and profitable future for ALL of us. Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Fact: UPS proposes to raise our healthcare 150%.
-- Please explain, does this mean you will have a $15 co-pay? Technically if you were paying nothing then anything is a 100% increase - what is the actual proposal? You do realize that healthcare is not just a UPS issue it is a US issue.
*Since 2000, employment-based health insurance premiums have increased 100 percent, compared to cumulative inflation of 24 percent and cumulative wage growth of 21 percent during the same period.2
*Health insurance expenses are the fastest growing cost component for employers. Unless something changes dramatically, health insurance costs will overtake profits by 2008
*According to the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust, premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in the United States have been rising four times faster on average than workers’ earnings since 2000
The average employee contribution to company-provided health insurance has increased more than 143 percent since 2000. Average out-of-pocket costs for deductibles, co-payments for medications, and co-insurance for physician and hospital visits rose 115 percent during the same period.
Please check out the site or google additional info - again this is not a UPS issue. The bottom line things are significantly different now then when you current contract was negotiated 7 years ago.
Fact: UPS proposes to take away our prescriptions
-- I find that hard to believe - I would guess they are proposing a co-pay.
Fact: Pension,Pay and 401k haven't have been talked about yet.
-- I will take your word for it.
Fact: UPS WANTS TO OUTSOURCE MY JOB TO CHINA
-- See previous post and explain what they are trying to outsource.
Fact : We haven't asked for anything yet
-- then this is not a negotiation, what has been going on for the past two years?
Fact: We are the highest paid in the airline industry
-- agreed - and nothing to be ashamed of.
Fact UPS is unbelievably profitable.
-- True but not so much right now, a profitable UPS means a secure and profitable future for ALL of us. Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Fact: UPS proposes to raise our healthcare 150%.
-- Please explain, does this mean you will have a $15 co-pay? Technically if you were paying nothing then anything is a 100% increase - what is the actual proposal? You do realize that healthcare is not just a UPS issue it is a US issue.
*Since 2000, employment-based health insurance premiums have increased 100 percent, compared to cumulative inflation of 24 percent and cumulative wage growth of 21 percent during the same period.2
*Health insurance expenses are the fastest growing cost component for employers. Unless something changes dramatically, health insurance costs will overtake profits by 2008
*According to the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust, premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in the United States have been rising four times faster on average than workers’ earnings since 2000
The average employee contribution to company-provided health insurance has increased more than 143 percent since 2000. Average out-of-pocket costs for deductibles, co-payments for medications, and co-insurance for physician and hospital visits rose 115 percent during the same period.
Please check out the site or google additional info - again this is not a UPS issue. The bottom line things are significantly different now then when you current contract was negotiated 7 years ago.
Fact: UPS proposes to take away our prescriptions
-- I find that hard to believe - I would guess they are proposing a co-pay.
Fact: Pension,Pay and 401k haven't have been talked about yet.
-- I will take your word for it.
Fact: UPS WANTS TO OUTSOURCE MY JOB TO CHINA
-- See previous post and explain what they are trying to outsource.
