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<blockquote data-quote="trplnkl" data-source="post: 327089" data-attributes="member: 13254"><p>Having grown up it Texas (a right to work State) my first experience with unions was when I started with UPS. My first three years was as a non-union clerk working in the office, I did my job and went home. I did however keep my eyes and ears open and learned alot. I saw many good drivers get on a mangers bad side for inconsequential crap and be hounded day after day until the union would eventually step in make it stop. I saw a driver get fired for having a wreck because the brakes failed on his truck approaching an intersection, it took the union six months to get his job back because the company kept postponing the procedure. I saw many things that the company did or tried to do to drivers that just were not right and the union would fix the problem. Sat, your seniority wouldn't mean squat without the union. I was not with the company when our area went union, but I have friends that were. Bid routes were nonexistent, you ran whatever route the current center manager/FT sup wanted you to run, regardless of your years with the company. This was used as a "get even" thing and the managers (from what I have been told) used it often. It was the union that made seniority count. Anyone that believes that we would be making the kind of money and have to benefits that we have today without the help or the Teamsters are sadly fooling themselves. I am far from being a "union goon", but I sure do not have company wool over my eyes either.</p><p> On this pension buy out, there are so many different aspects to this subject I doubt anyone has all the facts, I sure don't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trplnkl, post: 327089, member: 13254"] Having grown up it Texas (a right to work State) my first experience with unions was when I started with UPS. My first three years was as a non-union clerk working in the office, I did my job and went home. I did however keep my eyes and ears open and learned alot. I saw many good drivers get on a mangers bad side for inconsequential crap and be hounded day after day until the union would eventually step in make it stop. I saw a driver get fired for having a wreck because the brakes failed on his truck approaching an intersection, it took the union six months to get his job back because the company kept postponing the procedure. I saw many things that the company did or tried to do to drivers that just were not right and the union would fix the problem. Sat, your seniority wouldn't mean squat without the union. I was not with the company when our area went union, but I have friends that were. Bid routes were nonexistent, you ran whatever route the current center manager/FT sup wanted you to run, regardless of your years with the company. This was used as a "get even" thing and the managers (from what I have been told) used it often. It was the union that made seniority count. Anyone that believes that we would be making the kind of money and have to benefits that we have today without the help or the Teamsters are sadly fooling themselves. I am far from being a "union goon", but I sure do not have company wool over my eyes either. On this pension buy out, there are so many different aspects to this subject I doubt anyone has all the facts, I sure don't. [/QUOTE]
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