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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1159348" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>I strongly disagree. High labor costs handicap UPS's future, and even if McCain had been voted & re-elected President, concessions on health care was UPS's primary goal entering negotiates. Quite honestly, I believe health care is where UPS drew the line -- e.g. it was willing to drag-out negotiations unless the Teamsters agreed to some level of concessions. Which the Teamsters did, and quite honestly, I believe it was a fair compromise. Hall has indicated he was willing to fight for the PTers more... but honestly, a contract presented to the masses which was more favorable to the PTers would quickly be voted down, since voter turnout among PT is poor. We PTers have only ourselves to blame.</p><p></p><p>If anything, the contract demonstrates how greedy the FTers are. They want no-cost health insurance with no out-of-pocket costs, they want an increased pension, they want to earn $100,000/year -- and they really don't give a damn if they take from the PTers, or future FTers (e.g. concessions in seasonal,temporary&casual employees) to earn it. Because of RTW and high turnover (Hall said that at any given time, 30K PTers were new hires), not sure there's enough PT votes to overcome this even if they voted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1159348, member: 43436"] I strongly disagree. High labor costs handicap UPS's future, and even if McCain had been voted & re-elected President, concessions on health care was UPS's primary goal entering negotiates. Quite honestly, I believe health care is where UPS drew the line -- e.g. it was willing to drag-out negotiations unless the Teamsters agreed to some level of concessions. Which the Teamsters did, and quite honestly, I believe it was a fair compromise. Hall has indicated he was willing to fight for the PTers more... but honestly, a contract presented to the masses which was more favorable to the PTers would quickly be voted down, since voter turnout among PT is poor. We PTers have only ourselves to blame. If anything, the contract demonstrates how greedy the FTers are. They want no-cost health insurance with no out-of-pocket costs, they want an increased pension, they want to earn $100,000/year -- and they really don't give a damn if they take from the PTers, or future FTers (e.g. concessions in seasonal,temporary&casual employees) to earn it. Because of RTW and high turnover (Hall said that at any given time, 30K PTers were new hires), not sure there's enough PT votes to overcome this even if they voted. [/QUOTE]
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