I did NOT decide to join a union job. I decided to seek out employment with UPS, I didn't care that it was a unionized company. Were there no union I probably would still work here. I Don't need union backing to earn a big check to feed my family.
Finally, I am teaching my children to become responsible, intelligent young people who don't feel the need to give hard earned peoples money to lazy unemployed welfare cases.
Peas
This is the kind of unappreciative statement that irks all other union members. Someone who claims he came to work for the company and not the union. Lets see, if there was no union, and the pay for its full timers was around 15 bucks an hour for almost a 60 hour work week with no benefits, would you still come to UPS?
UPS "invited" the union into the company over 100 years ago. UPS looked for a relationshp with its workers where it rewarded them for their dedication, their service and their integrity.
Throughout the years, UPS and its employees worked hand in hand to build the largest delivery carrier in the world. For that effort UPS paid the highest wages in the industry. People knowing what the wages were/are/going to is what attracts them to the company.
It is dishonest to say you wanted to work for UPS and did not want to have anything to do with the teamsters when "everyone" knows UPS is a union company and pays the highest wages in the industry.
I would like you to name another company that pays equal to UPS for full time union workers along with the benefit packages in our industry or any other industry. You say you dont need union backing to earn a big check to feed your family, well, I'll call you on that one.
Name a non union company that you think you could get hired at where you would make the identical money and benefits that you earn in your union job.
Ill wait, I just wont hold my breath.
The last part of your post is just plain silly. Not all welfare cases are lazy unemployed people. This kind of statement demonstrates your lack of emphathy for the poor in this country. As a UPSer, I make a good living, and if some of my tax money goes to feed a poor child, i could care less what catagory his parents are in. As long as the child eats.
You preach about personal responsiblility, but take free benefits and scheduled raises negotiated for you. I wish the Teamsters and UPS could create a two tier pay system for its employees.
The first tier for the UNION members who want their UNION to negotiate on their behalf collectively because they believe in the concept of Unionizism and the second tier, where those "patriots" and "personal responsibllity" people to sit down and negotiate on their own with UPS as individuals.
The second tier would be clear of dues and union protections. The second tier employee would be responsible for negotiating wages, benefits, schedule, hours, work weeks, guarantees, pensions, raises, and discipline.
Believe me, once you would have to do this on your own, You would be at the union hall the next week begging to be sworn in.
I have no respect for people who bite the hand that either feeds them or protects them. The bible says to help your fellow man, but you claim your teaching your children to do the complete opposite. The bible has no clarifications for help.
You are doing your children an injustice with this practice.
Peace.
