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<blockquote data-quote="Superteeth2478" data-source="post: 3575008" data-attributes="member: 73024"><p>Guess what, with that crappy line of reasoning, UPS could just as easily tell all the full-timers that are getting reamed with 60 to even 70 hour weeks during peak that don't get to see their family "Guess what, you've been doing this for 10 plus years, life isn't fair, suck it up buttercup". Would you be fine with that? That's the point of a union, to prevent abuses like this. But people like you are so narrowsighted you don't see that other people are affected by things in the same way. So no, a 6-year employee shouldn't have to accept that new hires are making the same as them, because there's a union in place that should fight for catch-up raises for the veterans who have put in more blood, sweat, and tears into the job than some Joe Schmoe off the street.</p><p></p><p>Hell, they could say the same damn thing about every other benefit we get as being part of the union when they take those things away. "Oh, you have to pay for your insurance? Life isn't fair. Oh, you don't get a pension anymore? Life isn't fair. Oh, you have to take a pay cut so we can get more profits? Life isn't fair. It's a slippery slope, and it makes you sound like a fool to use that line of reasoning against your part-time union brothers and sisters.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The starting rate only went up a little bit the past two contracts. Very little. There was a little bit of resentment over the fact that there was no catch-up raise when the starting rate went up, but nothing on the scale of what's going on now. I've flat out told my union brothers and sisters in my hub that I will make damn sure they all vote "no" if we veterans (even if it only be two-month veterans that were hired right before the contract is ratified) don't get catch up raises to the $15 that new hires are supposedly going to get.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Superteeth2478, post: 3575008, member: 73024"] Guess what, with that crappy line of reasoning, UPS could just as easily tell all the full-timers that are getting reamed with 60 to even 70 hour weeks during peak that don't get to see their family "Guess what, you've been doing this for 10 plus years, life isn't fair, suck it up buttercup". Would you be fine with that? That's the point of a union, to prevent abuses like this. But people like you are so narrowsighted you don't see that other people are affected by things in the same way. So no, a 6-year employee shouldn't have to accept that new hires are making the same as them, because there's a union in place that should fight for catch-up raises for the veterans who have put in more blood, sweat, and tears into the job than some Joe Schmoe off the street. Hell, they could say the same damn thing about every other benefit we get as being part of the union when they take those things away. "Oh, you have to pay for your insurance? Life isn't fair. Oh, you don't get a pension anymore? Life isn't fair. Oh, you have to take a pay cut so we can get more profits? Life isn't fair. It's a slippery slope, and it makes you sound like a fool to use that line of reasoning against your part-time union brothers and sisters. The starting rate only went up a little bit the past two contracts. Very little. There was a little bit of resentment over the fact that there was no catch-up raise when the starting rate went up, but nothing on the scale of what's going on now. I've flat out told my union brothers and sisters in my hub that I will make damn sure they all vote "no" if we veterans (even if it only be two-month veterans that were hired right before the contract is ratified) don't get catch up raises to the $15 that new hires are supposedly going to get. [/QUOTE]
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