UPS Lifer
Well-Known Member
I'd like a reply from one of the management members. If a driver is setting up his load in the morning before he punches in and gets hurt-does he go on comp or do you put him on disability?
If a driver or any employee, is hurt when he is on UPS property or on the clock - the company is liable. PERIOD!
Years and years ago in Southern California, the bonus system ruled the roost!
Drivers were making bonus out the yahzoo! Nobody except maybe a Business Agent (even a lot of the stewards looked the other way), cared if drivers were working through their lunch or going through their loads before work. I am not saying it was right - I am just saying that is the way it was.
As the allowances tightened up and Driver Release was put into the methods, things changed and supervisors had to start supervising and the methods came into play and the union became stronger forcing the contract to be followed.
I managed under-allowed centers, one was Pasadena Ctr (home of the Rose Bowl) which was one of the most productive centers in the country. 9.3 paid day and 21.5 SPORH with an avg. under-allowed of -1.30. Try to find numbers like that!
This center was one of the last in the region to go DR. The drivers were signing for packages. When the division manager came in and told the drivers that anyone caught signing for packages from now on would be fired the drivers had a backlash! The center went to 10.8 paid day 12.3 SPORH and from 50 to 550 send agains. This all happened in one day!
The send agains were a killer! The entire division (4 centers) had only 350 send agains!!
After that everything was done by the book and by the contract. That was back in the late '80s.
Sorry for the history lesson!!
My idea of a perfect center or driver is
1- Treat your people with respect and follow the contract
2- No injuries or accidents
3- No service problems including claims
4- 9.4 paid day or less
5- Scratch center performance or individual bonus using the methods