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<blockquote data-quote="quadro" data-source="post: 272692" data-attributes="member: 12850"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Apparently you aren’t aware because, quite simply, you are wrong. I’m not trying to talk you out of your belief in unionization, I’m trying to convince you to educate yourself. I know I sound like a broken record. Go do your homework before you screw up someone’s life by giving them bad info. The 401K has nothing to do with the Portable Pension Plan. They are two distinct and different plans. The only commonality is that they both help you save for retirement. As I’ve already pointed out, but you’ve chosen not to confirm, you are not REQUIRED to contribute a minimum of 3.5%. You are not required to contribute anything. If you are not contributing to the 401K as of 1/1/08, you will be auto-enrolled, but you have 90 days to opt out and get any and every penny back that might get deducted before you opt out. However, you would be crazy to not put at least 1% in as you will get 100% match on that. The 3.5% you are referring to is the maximum company match for the 401K.</span></span> The PPP is completely funded by FedEx. You can't put anything into it even if you wanted to.</p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I don’t have to be in management just because I’m informed. And now you’re back to the name calling. I am not a liar, I’m telling you what I have experienced. I’ve worked in a number of different locations over the last 20+ years and I don’t think I know dozens of people who’ve been hurt, let alone harassed. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I have seen people get hurt through no fault of their own and I’ve seen people do something stupid and get hurt. Funnily enough, in all cases, FedEx still paid them, paid their medical bill, held their position for at least 90 days, if not longer, etc, etc. I’ve seen people have GFT’s upheld, overturned, and modified. In each and every case, if I didn’t step back and take a non-emotional, rational look at the facts, I would probably think that the employee was getting screwed. Sometimes it definitely seems that way. However, when I took the time to really understand the issues I felt that the outcomes were pretty fair. Does that mean that I agreed with managements decisions? Not always, but I understood where they were coming from. For every employee who seemed to have a decision go against them, there was one who I thought got the better end of the deal. It’s not a perfect system and I never said it was. I’m just not willing to give up the system that I have to risk getting a system that might be worse than this one.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I already said that repetitive stress injuries are very real, but I won’t give you that everyone will suffer from them. Everyone’s different and you cannot make that blanket statement. I do know dozens of people who have been couriers their entire career and haven’t suffered from repetitive stress injuries. And, er, why would I want to vote for a union to make FedEx more like UPS if that means I won’t make it past 50? So FedEx doesn’t work you as hard, is that what you’re saying???? I would 100% agree with that.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I got out the magnifying glass but I just don’t see the “non-profit” next to the FedEx logo. It’s only Us vs. Them if you buy in to that philosophy. Personally, I don’t. And since when is a union negotiating from a position of strength? The union can only get what a company is willing to give. Worst case scenario is that the company goes out of business. Obviously not either side’s goal.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quadro, post: 272692, member: 12850"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Apparently you aren’t aware because, quite simply, you are wrong. I’m not trying to talk you out of your belief in unionization, I’m trying to convince you to educate yourself. I know I sound like a broken record. Go do your homework before you screw up someone’s life by giving them bad info. The 401K has nothing to do with the Portable Pension Plan. They are two distinct and different plans. The only commonality is that they both help you save for retirement. As I’ve already pointed out, but you’ve chosen not to confirm, you are not REQUIRED to contribute a minimum of 3.5%. You are not required to contribute anything. If you are not contributing to the 401K as of 1/1/08, you will be auto-enrolled, but you have 90 days to opt out and get any and every penny back that might get deducted before you opt out. However, you would be crazy to not put at least 1% in as you will get 100% match on that. The 3.5% you are referring to is the maximum company match for the 401K.[/FONT][/COLOR] The PPP is completely funded by FedEx. You can't put anything into it even if you wanted to. [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I don’t have to be in management just because I’m informed. And now you’re back to the name calling. I am not a liar, I’m telling you what I have experienced. I’ve worked in a number of different locations over the last 20+ years and I don’t think I know dozens of people who’ve been hurt, let alone harassed. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I have seen people get hurt through no fault of their own and I’ve seen people do something stupid and get hurt. Funnily enough, in all cases, FedEx still paid them, paid their medical bill, held their position for at least 90 days, if not longer, etc, etc. I’ve seen people have GFT’s upheld, overturned, and modified. In each and every case, if I didn’t step back and take a non-emotional, rational look at the facts, I would probably think that the employee was getting screwed. Sometimes it definitely seems that way. However, when I took the time to really understand the issues I felt that the outcomes were pretty fair. Does that mean that I agreed with managements decisions? Not always, but I understood where they were coming from. For every employee who seemed to have a decision go against them, there was one who I thought got the better end of the deal. It’s not a perfect system and I never said it was. I’m just not willing to give up the system that I have to risk getting a system that might be worse than this one.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I already said that repetitive stress injuries are very real, but I won’t give you that everyone will suffer from them. Everyone’s different and you cannot make that blanket statement. I do know dozens of people who have been couriers their entire career and haven’t suffered from repetitive stress injuries. And, er, why would I want to vote for a union to make FedEx more like UPS if that means I won’t make it past 50? So FedEx doesn’t work you as hard, is that what you’re saying???? I would 100% agree with that.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I got out the magnifying glass but I just don’t see the “non-profit” next to the FedEx logo. It’s only Us vs. Them if you buy in to that philosophy. Personally, I don’t. And since when is a union negotiating from a position of strength? The union can only get what a company is willing to give. Worst case scenario is that the company goes out of business. Obviously not either side’s goal.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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