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<blockquote data-quote="gandydancer" data-source="post: 414777" data-attributes="member: 9310"><p>Dunno what makes you think "zone skip" is some sort of rocket science that I don't grasp. UPS can price its services any way it wants. Specifically, it can offer runs by UPS feeder drivers in an equvalent-to "zone skipping" price contract at the same price as UPS Freight runs, if it wants to. No, it won't make as much money as it can with cheaper drivers, and at the margin there are some accounts where at the price it can get the business it will lose a little money using Feeder and make a little money using Freight, but that's an argument for giving EVERY kind of freight run to Freight, or owner-operators, and shutting down the in-house feeder operation. Or for cutting people out of the interior operation, say, in reverse order of their wages (counter-seniority) since THAT would be cheaper for the company, and it could afford to bid lower. Etc. One point of a union is to restrict management from doing things that lower its costs at the expense of its workforce, in this case subcontracting at the expense of feeder drivers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gandydancer, post: 414777, member: 9310"] Dunno what makes you think "zone skip" is some sort of rocket science that I don't grasp. UPS can price its services any way it wants. Specifically, it can offer runs by UPS feeder drivers in an equvalent-to "zone skipping" price contract at the same price as UPS Freight runs, if it wants to. No, it won't make as much money as it can with cheaper drivers, and at the margin there are some accounts where at the price it can get the business it will lose a little money using Feeder and make a little money using Freight, but that's an argument for giving EVERY kind of freight run to Freight, or owner-operators, and shutting down the in-house feeder operation. Or for cutting people out of the interior operation, say, in reverse order of their wages (counter-seniority) since THAT would be cheaper for the company, and it could afford to bid lower. Etc. One point of a union is to restrict management from doing things that lower its costs at the expense of its workforce, in this case subcontracting at the expense of feeder drivers. [/QUOTE]
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