realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
And I care about the public sympathy, why?
Maybe the problem in the US is not that WE are over paid.
But most of the working class is UNDER PAID.
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Maybe the problem in the US is not that WE are over paid.
But most of the working class is UNDER PAID.
beentheredonethat
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It's not about who could or couldn't do the job. It's doesn't matter how many would last a day or two days or whatever number. It's about the vast majority of people in the US do not make as much as a UPS driver (esp if you include only those working a blue collar job.) All they need to know is what they make and what a UPS driver makes. The majority won't have sympathy for a person who makes may more then they do being on strike. The last strike, UPS was stupid and did a very poor job marketing to the population. They won't make that mistake twice.
Overpaid Union Thug
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UPS is screwed if there is another strike. Yes, they could replace everyone of us and toss the replacements a DIAD and say "Here ya go.....just follow ORION and run off all your stops and you'll do fine" but do you think those replacements are going to work until 8:30 (or later) every night with no insurance or pension and having to work at twice the pace as we do now without having time for a lunch break? I think not. The general public will see UPS for what they really are. No amount of clever marketing will be able to cover that up. The only thing keeping UPS in check right now is the Teamsters. They have gotten weaker and weaker over the years but without them UPS would slowly but surely drop from their current market share to less of what the three FedEx operations are getting now. You can count on that. ORION could never save UPS.
beentheredonethat
Well-Known Member
If ups paid what fdx paid ground we wouldn't have to get the same production as we do now nor the same hours per day and UPS would make more profit.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
There is some logic and truth to that but then everything we purchase and pay for will cost more so the net effect would be to bring the underpaid (large group) buying power up a little bit while pulling down the buying power of the overpaid (small group) down considerably.
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
The working people at the bottom are getting screwed.
And yet CEO'S have never done better.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
A good cause to work for and change can happen.
And they always will.
That will never change except in some utopian dream.
Why whine and worry about the nature of things that will not change?
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realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
To clarify:
Work on getting the workers on the bottom in a better position
but
forget about the people at the top.
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
How about pay management the same as fedex ground management while your at it? Then we could be more like the post office.
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
What about the people on the top?
Catatonic
Nine Lives
They are the one's making it happen ... let 'em go for it and enjoy the ride.
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
I only have 1 small problem with that.
They are not helping the working poor any by paying slave wages.
And if they won't do it voluntarily, friend them.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Exactly my approach too!
I say or think "friend them" a hundred times a day.
I just don't get my panties in a wad when I can't do anything about it.
You wear panties?
Catatonic
Nine Lives
The ones with red ruffles while I am listening to Merle Haggard and waiting on some cat named Deano change my tire.
That's an image.
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
This issue is 1 of the few times I favor governmental intervention.
Keep raising the minimum wage until a person can work a full time job and not need governmental assistance.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
That or eliminate government assistance (which is the root of many problems in the USA today).
Government is the root of the problem.
Who else could spend a100k for a 30k job?
