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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 974251" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>I chalk this one up to what I term "Express snobbery"... Answer to your question, look at Ground. They are getting the job done with acceptable service levels and compensated at half what the typical Express Courier makes. The Ground drivers know the job doesn't amount to anything, they deal with customers, they deal with management and each other...</p><p></p><p>Sure the turnover is a hell of a lot higher than Express, but FedEx gets its packages delivered. When one Ground driver gets tired of the job, FedEx (or the ISP, ahem..) manages to find another warm body to plop down into the driver's seat and away the truck goes.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Official unemployment rate at just over 8% (the "U3 number"), "real" un- and under- employment rate at close to 15% (the "U6 number") and "true" un-, under- and those who have just given up on working rate at close to 18%.... You have the answer to your question.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You answered your own question. Unions aren't some form of "hidden knowledge", they are "culturally unacceptable" where you are at. Whose fault is that? What does it take to make union jobs more prevalent in the national economy? It takes workers that are willing to put aside their petty differences and supposed political identity and organize for their common good. </p><p></p><p>So you have had an average of one Express employee a year leave your station for a unionized job in order to have a career and better ability to provide for their family... Any remote hint as to what the best course of action would be for those still working at Express would be??? OK, two best courses of action... (Leave or organize...)</p><p></p><p>Naw... can't organize, that's just plain un-American and outright socialistic...</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Do you honestly expect Express to post UPS wages, top out times and benefit packages on the station bulletin boards for Express employees to gaze upon? (Rhetorical question)...</p><p></p><p>If you want better, you have to search out better. The overwhelming majority of Express employees are sheep, they don't bother looking at what is going on around them. This benefits FedEx - not the employees. I've seen employers who DO post wages and benefits that their competitors offer - just to show their employees how good they have it. Express does just the opposite, even to the point of attempting to prohibit employees from discussing their respective pay rates with each other - they do, but Express doesn't like having to explain why one employee is getting paid $24/hr and another doing the exact same thing for 5 years is only getting paid $17/hr.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 974251, member: 22880"] I chalk this one up to what I term "Express snobbery"... Answer to your question, look at Ground. They are getting the job done with acceptable service levels and compensated at half what the typical Express Courier makes. The Ground drivers know the job doesn't amount to anything, they deal with customers, they deal with management and each other... Sure the turnover is a hell of a lot higher than Express, but FedEx gets its packages delivered. When one Ground driver gets tired of the job, FedEx (or the ISP, ahem..) manages to find another warm body to plop down into the driver's seat and away the truck goes. Official unemployment rate at just over 8% (the "U3 number"), "real" un- and under- employment rate at close to 15% (the "U6 number") and "true" un-, under- and those who have just given up on working rate at close to 18%.... You have the answer to your question. You answered your own question. Unions aren't some form of "hidden knowledge", they are "culturally unacceptable" where you are at. Whose fault is that? What does it take to make union jobs more prevalent in the national economy? It takes workers that are willing to put aside their petty differences and supposed political identity and organize for their common good. So you have had an average of one Express employee a year leave your station for a unionized job in order to have a career and better ability to provide for their family... Any remote hint as to what the best course of action would be for those still working at Express would be??? OK, two best courses of action... (Leave or organize...) Naw... can't organize, that's just plain un-American and outright socialistic... Do you honestly expect Express to post UPS wages, top out times and benefit packages on the station bulletin boards for Express employees to gaze upon? (Rhetorical question)... If you want better, you have to search out better. The overwhelming majority of Express employees are sheep, they don't bother looking at what is going on around them. This benefits FedEx - not the employees. I've seen employers who DO post wages and benefits that their competitors offer - just to show their employees how good they have it. Express does just the opposite, even to the point of attempting to prohibit employees from discussing their respective pay rates with each other - they do, but Express doesn't like having to explain why one employee is getting paid $24/hr and another doing the exact same thing for 5 years is only getting paid $17/hr. [/QUOTE]
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