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Has IBT/CS been a wise steward of our pension?
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<blockquote data-quote="ok2bclever" data-source="post: 53020"><p>My shift takes me through the majority of the preload's shift and while I have a part-time steward she prefers me to handle the duties as long as I am present, also my part-time reload steward calls me forwarding questions, so I talk to part-timers ever day and future pension and benefit issue questions come up with them a lot. </p><p> </p><p>The days that they were college kids staying only for a few years is long gone. </p><p> </p><p>Some are on the track to full-time, but many are not. </p><p> </p><p>The majority of them work two jobs, support a family and <strong>need</strong> this job for the benefits. </p><p> </p><p>They are concerned with what they will get long term for retirement. </p><p> </p><p>They know if they go full-time now as it stands they are going into a shaky pension scenario. </p><p> </p><p>They have also seen how UPS downgrades the part-timer's UPS based plans when the full-timer's Central States plan's benefits are lowered. </p><p> </p><p>I would agree that the transient part-timers would be your best hope to increase a vote in the favor of you minority lucky UPS workers to leave the majority of us to rot so you can have a wage increase, but they are also the least likely to vote by far. </p><p> </p><p>Trick, Sawman can answer for himself as I don't know him from Adam, but my understanding is this is all pure hypothetical conjecture at this point, an exercise in "what if".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ok2bclever, post: 53020"] My shift takes me through the majority of the preload's shift and while I have a part-time steward she prefers me to handle the duties as long as I am present, also my part-time reload steward calls me forwarding questions, so I talk to part-timers ever day and future pension and benefit issue questions come up with them a lot. The days that they were college kids staying only for a few years is long gone. Some are on the track to full-time, but many are not. The majority of them work two jobs, support a family and [b]need[/b] this job for the benefits. They are concerned with what they will get long term for retirement. They know if they go full-time now as it stands they are going into a shaky pension scenario. They have also seen how UPS downgrades the part-timer's UPS based plans when the full-timer's Central States plan's benefits are lowered. I would agree that the transient part-timers would be your best hope to increase a vote in the favor of you minority lucky UPS workers to leave the majority of us to rot so you can have a wage increase, but they are also the least likely to vote by far. Trick, Sawman can answer for himself as I don't know him from Adam, but my understanding is this is all pure hypothetical conjecture at this point, an exercise in "what if". [/QUOTE]
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