Well hourly employees have been very slighted. For years. But anyways I'm going on the material both passed out to us and posted in the station. They've had pay schemes that lasted for years before. Looks to me like they finally came up with a plan they can be happy with, 3% for years with slightly higher raises if you hang in long enough, possibly 20 years.
But again, what exactly do you believe will happen to us once we go strictly overnight?
You already see it...
Replacing full-time Couriers that leave is next to impossible for station management (they can replace part-timers who quit relatively easy). Station management almost has to offer up their own blood to get approval for filling a vacant full-time Courier position.
Once the final bomb is dropped, full-timers will be required to work split shifts to get their minimum pay. Refuse to work an offered split shift - weekly minimums are gone.
Express knows that many full-time Couriers will start looking to leave when they are faced with 35 hours of pay a week - and being mandated to take a 3 hour unpaid break in the middle of each day in order to get that 35 hours of pay. Very few Couriers are as "frugal" as you. They are accustomed to getting 43-48 hours a week (most people fit their lifestyle around their "expected" income, not their "worst case bottom income"). When the final "unveiling" has occurred, they won't be able to continue in denial mode about their line of work, and will start looking elsewhere.
I don't believe that Express will "close out" full time Courier positions (while they are "occupied"), solely due to potential legal liability. What they will do, is make life so miserable for the full-time Couriers once the final shift-over has been accomplished, that I doubt that many would remain after 2-3 years. As the "excess" full time Couriers quit-retire-convert to part-time status (there will be a need for full-time Couriers to cover extended routes and swing positions), openings for two part-time Couriers will be created to replace each full-timer. A gradual elimination of the full-time Courier "career" will be accomplished, and DGO will become an overwhelming part-time operation.
Once the Courier "career" is killed off, what makes you think Express will offer any real pay increases for those that continue as part-time Couriers at this time? Do the Ground contactors offer a compensation package that has "top outs" as part of it? (no, they offer a take it or leave it deal).
What is the turnover rate of part-time Couriers compared to current full-time Couriers? Will a work force that is continuously turning over make any "progression" in any scale that remains...
Yes part-timer, you can top out as a Courier in 28 years - don't ask us to put that in writing though - just keep in putting in those 20-25 hours a week - no OT available, so don't ask...
