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<blockquote data-quote="air_dr" data-source="post: 943696" data-attributes="member: 29929"><p><em>Average weekly salary of the “welfare to work” employees was $104 after taxes per week. ($8.00 hr X 3.0 hour guarantee X 5 days – 25% with holdings and - $25 in union dues)</em></p><p></p><p>Based on the figures listed above, the numbers simply do not compute...not to mention the fact that starting pay is $8.50, the guarantee is 3.5 hours, and, if per chance these are old numbers, union dues could not possibly be $25 per week for a rookie hub employee.</p><p></p><p>We are all bombarded with all sorts of information on every subject imaginable as we go about our lives...At least for me personally, when I am presented with a list of claims, some of which are quite extraordinary, and many of which are impossible or difficult to verify, I try to focus on the ones I can test easily enough. If those proove to be true, I will be inclined to regard the whole body of information as credible, but if those appear to be false, I will dismiss the whole thing. This is what I am inclined to do here. While the information is troubling, I am very skeptical of it. I don't believe it has much if any basis in reality...</p><p></p><p>Now that claim about one employee on average killed on the job each month... Being a UPSer, my cruiosity has been piqued as to what the number actually is...Whenever a upser has died in the line of duty, word seems to make it to the BC. I sense the statistic is more like one or two people per year. While tragic for the people involved, given the size of our company, I have felt quite safe. Does anyone have any <em>reliable</em> numbers? And also, any percentages? Where are the safer as well as more dangerous areas to be working?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="air_dr, post: 943696, member: 29929"] [I]Average weekly salary of the “welfare to work” employees was $104 after taxes per week. ($8.00 hr X 3.0 hour guarantee X 5 days – 25% with holdings and - $25 in union dues)[/I] Based on the figures listed above, the numbers simply do not compute...not to mention the fact that starting pay is $8.50, the guarantee is 3.5 hours, and, if per chance these are old numbers, union dues could not possibly be $25 per week for a rookie hub employee. We are all bombarded with all sorts of information on every subject imaginable as we go about our lives...At least for me personally, when I am presented with a list of claims, some of which are quite extraordinary, and many of which are impossible or difficult to verify, I try to focus on the ones I can test easily enough. If those proove to be true, I will be inclined to regard the whole body of information as credible, but if those appear to be false, I will dismiss the whole thing. This is what I am inclined to do here. While the information is troubling, I am very skeptical of it. I don't believe it has much if any basis in reality... Now that claim about one employee on average killed on the job each month... Being a UPSer, my cruiosity has been piqued as to what the number actually is...Whenever a upser has died in the line of duty, word seems to make it to the BC. I sense the statistic is more like one or two people per year. While tragic for the people involved, given the size of our company, I have felt quite safe. Does anyone have any [I]reliable[/I] numbers? And also, any percentages? Where are the safer as well as more dangerous areas to be working? [/QUOTE]
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