OK, I'm a definite NO vote, for a few reasons.
1- The raises are poor, it's never been about money for me, but the raises are SPLIT, one half every 6 months. "oh we argued against that", "your the highest paid in the LTL industry" again not exactly true, but I won't rail too much on that.
2- Capping new hires pay, NO WAY, this deal sells out our future brothers and sisters, just the creation of a two-tiered pay scale gives the Company an incentive to "disengage" the senior drivers.
3- No change to progression of new hires, 4 years at sub-standard pay for the same job? New hires are held to production standards the same as full-rate drivers. Pick up any trucking trade publication and it's full of, "driver shortage", "how to get quality help", ya gotta pay em'. This should have been a no brainer for both sides. Quality help deserves quality pay.
4- My deal breaker issue, the change to 182 reports or 1800 hours to qualify for full vacation or full pension benefits for the year, that works out to 34.61 hours per week, doesn't sound bad, but have an accident at home, break an ankle or something, go on our pitiful "short term" disability and see how fast you are affected, doesn't take long. Or be an extra board driver and we hit a slow patch. NO, NO, NO....
5- What really yanked my banana, "If we vote it down they might not go back to the table", " you authorized a strike vote, they might not allow you to go back and renegotiate". Who won't allow us, the company or OUR Union? No answer. crickets... If so, make the company lock us out!!!!
6- Contractors, sad, sad, sad, read it yourself and try and figure it out, good luck..
There are some good things, language that clarifies some earlier grey areas, ex., Describing what an "accident" is, penalty pay, some steward language, the 11 hour rule, to name a few.
Lastly "The company is losing money, they will shut the doors", BUll$@!t, UPS does NOT fail, that's the company attitude, can you imagine the P R disaster they would get if they failed at operating a trucking company? The only thing UPS values more than cash, is their beloved name, and their reputation as the biggest, best, trucking operation in the world. They won't risk it.
It is not my fault they "lose" money, all my brothers and sisters are the BEST at what we do, with what we have available to do it with. period!!!! If they want to make money, all they need to do is focus on the management side of this, hire freight people not what they got, you need to hire people who understand the business, not your part-time low paid idiots that populate our terminals now, It's up to you UPS.