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My hub will be laying off 263....including me
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<blockquote data-quote="grizzlygirl55" data-source="post: 479059" data-attributes="member: 21124"><p><span style="font-size: 10px">I have been an UPS'er for 20 years and on January 6th we were told that our District office was to be closed along with 5 other offices. Along with our restructuring is combining the Metro Jersey and North Jersey into Metro Jersey, this must be where you are at. This district and center re-structuring has been going on for some time now. The districts are getting larger as information technology gets better. I'm part of this last re-structuring and my office is closing and many people that are administration and specialists will be losing their jobs. I being one of them received a severance packet. In the packet was information about the ages of the employees that will be leaving but on other personal information was given. This had to be supplied to us for age discrimination reasons, which follows the government guidelines. The first thing that many of you will reply to this post is why were you not unionized. Well several years ago the union came very close to unionizing our office but management worked on us until we backed down. A nearby office did go union and are still working today with no UPS'er losing their jobs due to the restructuring going on. But at this location when one person retires they do not replace them so one day they will be gone and the work they do will be sent to the site that all other districts send their work to. If you are interested in staying with UPS I would suggest that if you can afford it go part time and take anything you are given because these are tough economic times and anyone working should be thankful because I'm seeing about 40 people will not have their jobs because of this restructuring. Even though UPS has a severance packet and it is a pretty good one to replace the type of job I have right now after all these years it just cannot be done. So hang in there but check all of your options.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grizzlygirl55, post: 479059, member: 21124"] [SIZE=2]I have been an UPS'er for 20 years and on January 6th we were told that our District office was to be closed along with 5 other offices. Along with our restructuring is combining the Metro Jersey and North Jersey into Metro Jersey, this must be where you are at. This district and center re-structuring has been going on for some time now. The districts are getting larger as information technology gets better. I'm part of this last re-structuring and my office is closing and many people that are administration and specialists will be losing their jobs. I being one of them received a severance packet. In the packet was information about the ages of the employees that will be leaving but on other personal information was given. This had to be supplied to us for age discrimination reasons, which follows the government guidelines. The first thing that many of you will reply to this post is why were you not unionized. Well several years ago the union came very close to unionizing our office but management worked on us until we backed down. A nearby office did go union and are still working today with no UPS'er losing their jobs due to the restructuring going on. But at this location when one person retires they do not replace them so one day they will be gone and the work they do will be sent to the site that all other districts send their work to. If you are interested in staying with UPS I would suggest that if you can afford it go part time and take anything you are given because these are tough economic times and anyone working should be thankful because I'm seeing about 40 people will not have their jobs because of this restructuring. Even though UPS has a severance packet and it is a pretty good one to replace the type of job I have right now after all these years it just cannot be done. So hang in there but check all of your options. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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