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<blockquote data-quote="phillly0588" data-source="post: 249739" data-attributes="member: 11817"><p><strong>Part-Time Starting Rate Frozen at $8.50</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">Healthcare Givebacks for New Part-Timers</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Details on the proposed economic package for part-timers are beginning to emerge, and they are not pretty. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The tentative agreement would freeze the starting pay rate for part-timers at $8.50 until August 2013. It would provide for an increase to $10.50 after 90 days on the job.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In a major concession, the proposed early deal reportedly denies health coverage to part-timers for the first year of employment, and family coverage for the first 18 months. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">This is the “Very Best Agreement” that Hoffa promised?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The starting rate for part-timers at UPS will soon fall below the legal minimum wage in many states. In California, for example, the minimum wage will be $8.00 by the end of this year. By the time this contract takes effect (Aug. 1, 2008), it may be $8.50. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">What will the minimum wage be in 2013 in California or in your state? Almost certainly more than $8.50, and perhaps over $10.50.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Should the largest and strongest Teamster contract—at the richest Teamster employer—provide for starting wages that are less than the minimum wage? Less than what Wal-Mart pays?</span> <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/sad.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sad:" title="Sad :sad:" data-shortname=":sad:" /><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/confused1.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-shortname=":confused:" />1</p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Under the proposed deal, it will take longer for part-time Teamsters to go full-time because the tentative deal will NOT create 10,000 new full-time jobs like the 1997 and 2002 contracts did. Instead it creates fewer jobs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In a positive step, the tentative agreement increases the penalty for supervisors working from time-and-a-half to double time. That’s an improvement, where the union enforces this language. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">UPS made more than $4 billion in profits last year. Is this really the best they could deliver to the part-timers who make up the majority of their workforce?</span> <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/crying.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":crying:" title="Crying :crying:" data-shortname=":crying:" /><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/sad.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sad:" title="Sad :sad:" data-shortname=":sad:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phillly0588, post: 249739, member: 11817"] [B]Part-Time Starting Rate Frozen at $8.50[/B] [FONT=Arial][B][SIZE=2]Healthcare Givebacks for New Part-Timers[/SIZE][/B] Details on the proposed economic package for part-timers are beginning to emerge, and they are not pretty. The tentative agreement would freeze the starting pay rate for part-timers at $8.50 until August 2013. It would provide for an increase to $10.50 after 90 days on the job. In a major concession, the proposed early deal reportedly denies health coverage to part-timers for the first year of employment, and family coverage for the first 18 months. This is the “Very Best Agreement” that Hoffa promised?[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]The starting rate for part-timers at UPS will soon fall below the legal minimum wage in many states. In California, for example, the minimum wage will be $8.00 by the end of this year. By the time this contract takes effect (Aug. 1, 2008), it may be $8.50. What will the minimum wage be in 2013 in California or in your state? Almost certainly more than $8.50, and perhaps over $10.50. Should the largest and strongest Teamster contract—at the richest Teamster employer—provide for starting wages that are less than the minimum wage? Less than what Wal-Mart pays?[/FONT] :sad::confused1 [FONT=Arial] Under the proposed deal, it will take longer for part-time Teamsters to go full-time because the tentative deal will NOT create 10,000 new full-time jobs like the 1997 and 2002 contracts did. Instead it creates fewer jobs. In a positive step, the tentative agreement increases the penalty for supervisors working from time-and-a-half to double time. That’s an improvement, where the union enforces this language. UPS made more than $4 billion in profits last year. Is this really the best they could deliver to the part-timers who make up the majority of their workforce?[/FONT] :crying::sad: [/QUOTE]
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