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<blockquote data-quote="InsideUPS" data-source="post: 1093887" data-attributes="member: 31414"><p>UPS Lifer writes :</p><p> </p><p><em>"I read a lot of the comments. The one that hit me was - UPS wants the union membership to pay $90 for healthcare. (I don't know if that was a month or a year) Let's assume it is a monthly deduction." ----- </em>If you read closer...<strong>.you will see that UPS wants $90 per WEEK</strong>....</p><p></p><p><em>"Big union supporters want to bleed the company dry"</em> - <strong>Ridiculous and simply not true</strong>.</p><p></p><p><em>"</em><em>Building are already closing. Sorts are closing down."</em> - <strong>Really?...Where?....and how are we making record profits?</strong></p><p></p><p><em>"</em><em>How do you think you are going to get a pension if the company can't pay it anymore? Ask California state union workers, ask these cities that have filed bankruptcy what is happening to the pensions! I know, it will never happen to UPS - think again. How many regions have been eliminated? How many districts? How many divisions have been consolidated? How many centers? - Now sorts are being eliminated. Packages are being rerouted and buildings are going to be closed"</em> - <strong>Apples to Oranges....UPS to California comparison.. and once again... consolidation of MANAGEMENT regions..districts..divisions.. is a process of eliminating DEADWOOD .....because of technology.... Please tell me, exactly, how many sorts have been eliminated...location and which buildings are being closed.....how many and locations...?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong><em><strong>"</strong>You Union Leadership has not sold you out<strong>.</strong> They realize that the company has to make big money to pay big salaries (like Scott Davis at $13,000,000) and big benefits. If the company goes under, 350,000 Teamsters stop working." </em> - <strong>There are medications for bipolar disorders......one minute you're saying Union supporters want to bleed the company dry and the next you are telling us that the Union leadership has not sold us out. I'm really not sure where you are going with this one....</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p>Just a hunch.......is there anyone here that happened to be one of the fortunate management people that hypothecated their stock before the IPO??? yes....before hourly were allowed to purchase stock and were forced to cash in all of our thrift plan savings....not knowing that it was actually UPS stock that we held....... Yes...we hourly were forced to sell low.....and buy high if we wanted to.... thanks but no thanks.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsideUPS, post: 1093887, member: 31414"] UPS Lifer writes : [I]"I read a lot of the comments. The one that hit me was - UPS wants the union membership to pay $90 for healthcare. (I don't know if that was a month or a year) Let's assume it is a monthly deduction." ----- [/I]If you read closer...[B].you will see that UPS wants $90 per WEEK[/B].... [I]"Big union supporters want to bleed the company dry"[/I] - [B]Ridiculous and simply not true[/B]. [I]"[/I][I]Building are already closing. Sorts are closing down."[/I] - [B]Really?...Where?....and how are we making record profits?[/B] [I]"[/I][I]How do you think you are going to get a pension if the company can't pay it anymore? Ask California state union workers, ask these cities that have filed bankruptcy what is happening to the pensions! I know, it will never happen to UPS - think again. How many regions have been eliminated? How many districts? How many divisions have been consolidated? How many centers? - Now sorts are being eliminated. Packages are being rerouted and buildings are going to be closed"[/I] - [B]Apples to Oranges....UPS to California comparison.. and once again... consolidation of MANAGEMENT regions..districts..divisions.. is a process of eliminating DEADWOOD .....because of technology.... Please tell me, exactly, how many sorts have been eliminated...location and which buildings are being closed.....how many and locations...? [/B][I][B]"[/B]You Union Leadership has not sold you out[B].[/B] They realize that the company has to make big money to pay big salaries (like Scott Davis at $13,000,000) and big benefits. If the company goes under, 350,000 Teamsters stop working." [/I] - [B]There are medications for bipolar disorders......one minute you're saying Union supporters want to bleed the company dry and the next you are telling us that the Union leadership has not sold us out. I'm really not sure where you are going with this one.... [/B] Just a hunch.......is there anyone here that happened to be one of the fortunate management people that hypothecated their stock before the IPO??? yes....before hourly were allowed to purchase stock and were forced to cash in all of our thrift plan savings....not knowing that it was actually UPS stock that we held....... Yes...we hourly were forced to sell low.....and buy high if we wanted to.... thanks but no thanks..... [/QUOTE]
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