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<blockquote data-quote="705red" data-source="post: 366326" data-attributes="member: 5229"><p>Originally Posted by <strong>705red</strong></p><p><em>705 is big enough to negotiate seperate because its condensed in a smaller area with over 12,000 upsers. Other locals with upsers are alot smaller in comparison and have to combine in order bargain and do not have the resources or funds to do it alone. We have 4 seperate buildings each with more than 1000 members and one that has roughly 6000. Its not arrogance its the way it has been. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><span style="color: blue">You give reasons of needing a unified force. You have that cute little united we stand comment in your signature line yet when it comes time to negotiate you guys go after the national with the intent of doing better then the national. The way it has been is not arrogance. Letting the way it has been continue is arrogance.</span></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><span style="color: red">Typically (not always) we have mirrored alot of the same language as the national. Have you seen the national contract? If our local cant out do that they should all resign! That contract is crap and will not be excepted here, call me what you will but we all deserve better than that crap.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: red"></span></em></p><p><em>What i can tell you is different here now from the rest of the nation, and its contract enforcement. All we want to do is come to work and give a fair days work for a fair days pay. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><span style="color: blue">Dude don't do this. You act like everyone reading this is gullible.</span></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Now if ups would allow us to do this without violating our seniority, over dispatching 9.5 guys, not honoring 8 hour requets, not send people home for being a minute or 2 late, not firing people for filling up water bottles on the clock in hot weather, not allowing medically dq drivers to work inside, i mean the list goes on. This is what people get frustrated with and this is how the union gets members involved. We dont run around recruiting good union drivers in the workplace ups creates them!</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><span style="color: blue">And if the union was not doing it for us the HR department would. </span></em></p><p></p><p><em> <span style="color: red">Once again you must have misread the post. It basically says in truck driver terms, you (management) screws the employees every chance you get driving them to the union.</span></em></p><p><em>We could have kept working in 97, we walked out to support our brothers and sisters across the nation and then held out several more days after they went back to work.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We feel that we can do better and whats wrong with that? We have a strong following as you will see next sunday when the count gets posted for all to see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="705red, post: 366326, member: 5229"] Originally Posted by [B]705red[/B] [I]705 is big enough to negotiate seperate because its condensed in a smaller area with over 12,000 upsers. Other locals with upsers are alot smaller in comparison and have to combine in order bargain and do not have the resources or funds to do it alone. We have 4 seperate buildings each with more than 1000 members and one that has roughly 6000. Its not arrogance its the way it has been. [COLOR=blue]You give reasons of needing a unified force. You have that cute little united we stand comment in your signature line yet when it comes time to negotiate you guys go after the national with the intent of doing better then the national. The way it has been is not arrogance. Letting the way it has been continue is arrogance.[/COLOR] [COLOR=red]Typically (not always) we have mirrored alot of the same language as the national. Have you seen the national contract? If our local cant out do that they should all resign! That contract is crap and will not be excepted here, call me what you will but we all deserve better than that crap. [/COLOR] What i can tell you is different here now from the rest of the nation, and its contract enforcement. All we want to do is come to work and give a fair days work for a fair days pay. [COLOR=blue]Dude don't do this. You act like everyone reading this is gullible.[/COLOR] Now if ups would allow us to do this without violating our seniority, over dispatching 9.5 guys, not honoring 8 hour requets, not send people home for being a minute or 2 late, not firing people for filling up water bottles on the clock in hot weather, not allowing medically dq drivers to work inside, i mean the list goes on. This is what people get frustrated with and this is how the union gets members involved. We dont run around recruiting good union drivers in the workplace ups creates them! [COLOR=blue]And if the union was not doing it for us the HR department would. [/COLOR][/I] [I] [COLOR=red]Once again you must have misread the post. It basically says in truck driver terms, you (management) screws the employees every chance you get driving them to the union.[/COLOR] We could have kept working in 97, we walked out to support our brothers and sisters across the nation and then held out several more days after they went back to work.[/I] We feel that we can do better and whats wrong with that? We have a strong following as you will see next sunday when the count gets posted for all to see. [/QUOTE]
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