westin
Well-Known Member
This whole FedEx succesfully getting away with cheap labor is really going to screw future Ups employees with our next contract next August. Ups and the Union will tussle over this for the next year. Ups will cry fowl, and successfully get concessions that will result in lower wages for all future employees. I will be the last generation of Ups middle class workers.
Its a shame cause I cant imagine doing this job, with all the missed family time, the permanent damage to our bodies, the stress of Ups's constant safety harassment (only UPS employees will understand that day to day ordeal- tuck your mirrors every stop, grab your hand rails in and out of pkg car, square your shoulders with your bulk head door when you shut it, blah blah blah) --That crap get so old and them using that as a dismissal tool.
I've never had an accident or workmans comp injury in 23 yrs and I feel like a 3yr old every time I have to cross the street to deliver a pkg. I realize we got some idiots but put all that crap on the ones who have demonstrated their inability to work safe and drive safe. Every time a sup rides with me, I go into ignore mode. Him talking safety for 10 straight hours is enough to make me want to hit a bridge head on just to shut him up.
So, cant imagine doing this job for anything less than I make now and I live check to check. One more class of middle America that soon will be no more!
Its a shame cause I cant imagine doing this job, with all the missed family time, the permanent damage to our bodies, the stress of Ups's constant safety harassment (only UPS employees will understand that day to day ordeal- tuck your mirrors every stop, grab your hand rails in and out of pkg car, square your shoulders with your bulk head door when you shut it, blah blah blah) --That crap get so old and them using that as a dismissal tool.
I've never had an accident or workmans comp injury in 23 yrs and I feel like a 3yr old every time I have to cross the street to deliver a pkg. I realize we got some idiots but put all that crap on the ones who have demonstrated their inability to work safe and drive safe. Every time a sup rides with me, I go into ignore mode. Him talking safety for 10 straight hours is enough to make me want to hit a bridge head on just to shut him up.
So, cant imagine doing this job for anything less than I make now and I live check to check. One more class of middle America that soon will be no more!