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Comparison: Last, Best & Final to Pre-strike proposals
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<blockquote data-quote="104Feeder" data-source="post: 1026706" data-attributes="member: 42554"><p>Fedex Ground is beating us in time-in-transit, more than a day in some cases. UPS would be better served if we moved more runs off the Rail and added more Sleeper teams as was the plan in 2006. Rail is cheap but people want their stuff faster & large shippers like Amazon want it there faster too. </p><p></p><p>UPS could easily cut costs by getting rid of all the unnecessary management, especially in the part-time ranks. Some of the hubs I walk into it seems like a ration of 1-4 mgmt/worker. Sure there are way too many supervisors doing our work but mostly you just see them texting each other. Not to mention the ridiculous sums of money that we spend on technology to spy on workers & dubious efficiency improvements. It's like Florida spending $2.7 million to drug test welfare recipients to "save" $80,400 in welfare benefits paid. Even in Feeders we are becoming too bloated with on-road management. Once you get to our level most of the B.S. stops & we have a better working relationship based on mutual respect. Right now we need more on-roads to train but that could be accomplished by having groups that travel to locations based on the training needs. Two on-roads would be plenty to handle the safety rides & post-accident rides (although the clamp down on Feeder over-allowed (another oxymoron) is creating more accidents. What is cheaper? 1 hr over allowed every day or your average Tier 3 Feeder accident?)</p><p></p><p>It always seemed strange to me that in Package you have people who want less overtime so the Company does everything they can to cram the OT in even at the triple-time rate. In Feeders you have the majority of the department who would hit their 60 every week if they could but instead the Company subcontracts, cuts hours, and acts in petty ways (such as building a facility in CA in a specific location just to cut a certain local out of any new Feeder work). We even under-utilize our Feeder network when we could be using our own drivers to transport new Package cars for example.</p><p></p><p>All the 1997 strike really did to some of our customers is impress upon them that diversifying their shipping sources was a prudent move. UPS has exacerbated that by raising rates every single year without fail. Sure, fuel charges have been screwing the pooch the last decade or so but why don't we be proactive like Delta Airlines and buy our own refinery? Lots of creative ways we could become more competitive and a stronger company and none of it involves screwing over the Teamsters who helped build this Company.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="104Feeder, post: 1026706, member: 42554"] Fedex Ground is beating us in time-in-transit, more than a day in some cases. UPS would be better served if we moved more runs off the Rail and added more Sleeper teams as was the plan in 2006. Rail is cheap but people want their stuff faster & large shippers like Amazon want it there faster too. UPS could easily cut costs by getting rid of all the unnecessary management, especially in the part-time ranks. Some of the hubs I walk into it seems like a ration of 1-4 mgmt/worker. Sure there are way too many supervisors doing our work but mostly you just see them texting each other. Not to mention the ridiculous sums of money that we spend on technology to spy on workers & dubious efficiency improvements. It's like Florida spending $2.7 million to drug test welfare recipients to "save" $80,400 in welfare benefits paid. Even in Feeders we are becoming too bloated with on-road management. Once you get to our level most of the B.S. stops & we have a better working relationship based on mutual respect. Right now we need more on-roads to train but that could be accomplished by having groups that travel to locations based on the training needs. Two on-roads would be plenty to handle the safety rides & post-accident rides (although the clamp down on Feeder over-allowed (another oxymoron) is creating more accidents. What is cheaper? 1 hr over allowed every day or your average Tier 3 Feeder accident?) It always seemed strange to me that in Package you have people who want less overtime so the Company does everything they can to cram the OT in even at the triple-time rate. In Feeders you have the majority of the department who would hit their 60 every week if they could but instead the Company subcontracts, cuts hours, and acts in petty ways (such as building a facility in CA in a specific location just to cut a certain local out of any new Feeder work). We even under-utilize our Feeder network when we could be using our own drivers to transport new Package cars for example. All the 1997 strike really did to some of our customers is impress upon them that diversifying their shipping sources was a prudent move. UPS has exacerbated that by raising rates every single year without fail. Sure, fuel charges have been screwing the pooch the last decade or so but why don't we be proactive like Delta Airlines and buy our own refinery? Lots of creative ways we could become more competitive and a stronger company and none of it involves screwing over the Teamsters who helped build this Company. [/QUOTE]
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