But it's still unfair to generalize union workers as awful.
Exactly, you don’t see work as a competition and enjoy a system based on how long people show up to work. I find a system like that a disaster and would despise working in it. Workers that like unions are not workers I would want to work alongside.
UPS has been around for 100 + years. Yep a disaster. Lol
The first national teamster contract was in 1979. A disastrous system can survive for a while that doesn’t mean it’s optimal.
Why should work be a competition? If everyone who passed the 30 day probation demonstrates they can do the job then what's the need for any further competition?
Um...
As usual, Itsy’s brain fog prevents her from being factual.
They organized city by city and region. Casey didn’t wave a wand in 1916 and unionize the entire workforce. You can pretend the company always had all its workers represented by a union but you would be wrong. It doesn’t change the fact that unions protect bad workers.
You got it. UPS drivers have to accept mediocrity in their position. To do well financially you have to just show up for an entry level job for a long time. Drive to further your station and position is not allowed. You must submit to the will of the union. Many drivers at Ground wouldn’t like that type of work environment. To do well and advance and make more money you have to be more productive at Ground. There’s no reward for being more productive at UPS, that’s the biggest flaw in a union workforce.
But the fly in your ointment is that being productive at Ground doesn’t bear the same fruit that collective bargaining does. Therefore, from the employees POV, your system is a failure.
Me and the consumer that receives services for a lower price. The union makes UPS less competitive which is why they’ve steadily lost market share for decades.
I'm pretty sure UPS and FedEx rates are in line with each other. They don't vary much for the average consumer. Individual large accounts may get steep discounts for volume but UPS does this as well. Fedex Ground has gained market share mainly due to increase in demand and because of the brand Express built for the Corporation.
UPS had a massive head start to own the small package delivery market. Their union didn’t allow the corporation to react quickly enough to capitalize on the increasing demand. They’ve been losing market share for decades, that’s not a good thing for a business regardless of why you believe that’s happening.
What skill are you talking about competing for as a delivery driver?
It's called competition. In an industry that's exploding in growth, it's impossible to avoid it. It's not what I believe, it's reality. Demand is too high for any one company to dominate the market. I'd expect a "business man" to understand that concept.
UPS could have dominated the market. They weren’t able to. Plenty of companies dominate sectors with high demand even with competition. See Google, Amazon etc. UPS allowed a competitor to take half the market and continues to lose ground every year.
It’s not a high skill job but there are skills required. Safe driving, organization, time management etc. The highest compensated drivers at Ground are the ones that excel in those areas. A driver that can do work in 5 hours that others take 8 will make more money by the hour at Ground. The opposite is true with union workers.
