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<blockquote data-quote="JonFrum" data-source="post: 770567" data-attributes="member: 18044"><p>UPS and Teamster negotiators slashed part-time wages for all people hired after mid-1982. Then they added insult to injury by keepiing the wages low every Contract thereafter.</p><p> </p><p>No law, and no Contract forbids UPS from paying more that the pay rates established in the Contract.</p><p> </p><p>UPS Managers and Supervisors have been complaining since 1982 about the low quality of the part-timers the low wages attract.</p><p> </p><p><u>This</u> <u>decades</u> <u>of</u> <u>complaining</u> prompts the rest of us to observe that:</p><p> </p><p>(a) UPS agreed to slash the wages and subsequently keep them low in eight Contracts. (currently "Minimum Wage" low!!!) </p><p> </p><p>(b) Nothing prevents UPS from solving the problem at any time by simply and unilaterally raising the part-time wages. Indeed, for a few years, in my building all part-timers got the "extra dollar," not just those who qualified for it. (UPS later took it away from them.)</p><p></p><p>(c) The wage rates are minimums. UPS can't pay less, but they are free to pay more, just as they are free to make contributions to charity or give UPSers turkeys and other things of value.</p><p> </p><p>(d) Running a Company involves evaluating the situation and spending money if circumstances warrant. But UPS Management has spent the last 28 years lamenting that their hands are tied, when it's really their thinking that's tied in knots.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonFrum, post: 770567, member: 18044"] UPS and Teamster negotiators slashed part-time wages for all people hired after mid-1982. Then they added insult to injury by keepiing the wages low every Contract thereafter. No law, and no Contract forbids UPS from paying more that the pay rates established in the Contract. UPS Managers and Supervisors have been complaining since 1982 about the low quality of the part-timers the low wages attract. [U]This[/U] [U]decades[/U] [U]of[/U] [U]complaining[/U] prompts the rest of us to observe that: (a) UPS agreed to slash the wages and subsequently keep them low in eight Contracts. (currently "Minimum Wage" low!!!) (b) Nothing prevents UPS from solving the problem at any time by simply and unilaterally raising the part-time wages. Indeed, for a few years, in my building all part-timers got the "extra dollar," not just those who qualified for it. (UPS later took it away from them.) (c) The wage rates are minimums. UPS can't pay less, but they are free to pay more, just as they are free to make contributions to charity or give UPSers turkeys and other things of value. (d) Running a Company involves evaluating the situation and spending money if circumstances warrant. But UPS Management has spent the last 28 years lamenting that their hands are tied, when it's really their thinking that's tied in knots. [/QUOTE]
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