Originally Posted by dannyboy
management violates the contract knowing that 95% of the time they wont get caught, and with the other 5%, many times it will not get filed on. but the worst they will have to do is put out some cash, so in a lot of cases, the cash saved pays for the cash paid out 100 fold. for ups, violating the contract is money in the bank.
Are you saying that it is more productive when management does the work.
in a way. if you had the correct number of management, it would be too costly in lost production for you to send someone out to make service, you would call in an air driver and pay him drivers wages, or what ever your contract stipulates. the way it is, you have an over abundance of sups that makes their time not really worth that much, hence, you feel like you need to take the cheaper way out and make management run the packages. in a properly staffed operation, your manager would be to costly to send out.
now, with that in mind, when you are caught, you almost gladly pay the grievance for say an hour, because you know for every hour you pay, there are literally hundreds of hours worth that you dont pay.
now, let an hourly violate part of the contract, and he can lose his job.
and this contract is supposed to be fair to both parties? wonder if socks or any other sup would authorize another sup to go out delivering packages knowing that if he gets caught, he will lose his job?
I'm not proud of it but I have sent sups out to deliver. Never have been caught. We would of paid the highest seniority if a grievance would have been filed....
ok, you feel bad about it. but the behavior does not change. why? you know you are violating the contract, a contract ups, your employer agreed to abide by. but yet you continue to do so. and the big thing in your statement speaks volumes "Never have been caught." see, with ups, its not that what you are doing is right or wrong, its that you have not been caught doing it.
and socks thinks the union is walking all over the company?
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