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<blockquote data-quote="Brother Joe" data-source="post: 986879" data-attributes="member: 41239"><p>A fair share that I couldn't see a reasonable person dispute would be that wages would go up with productivity & inflation. That has not been the case since the 70's. george pullman the tyrant that he was only demanded a 6% profit. Since ups went public ceo pay as well as the rest of the higher ups have been getting more inline with the rest of nonunion american companies. That means a smaller share for Teamster members. Teamsters members are under paid and yes I am talking about feeder & package car drivers. The 22.3 & especially part timers are vastly underpaid. The problem though is that the average american worker is even worse off. This is due to many factors one of them being is the loss of union density, another the lack of class consciousness of the american worker. Workers in other western industrial countries have a higher standard of living, Germany for example. Union workers make $60 an hour. </p><p></p><p>The biggest concerns I see is in pay is that of the part time worker. The minimum wage in some states has superceded the starting pay. There is a bill in the house to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. A $2 hour increase in the starting pay would not be unreasonable. Then of course everyone would get bumped up. An option for fulltimers might be to see some of that go into the pension instead of wages. Also we need the starting pay to go up each year. </p><p></p><p>The problem with health care is the insurance companies. They are middle men that provide no useful service. They have 33% overhead. We need single payer health care, expanded medicare for all which only has a 3% overhead. Take insurance off the table & that can go into pension & increased wages. </p><p></p><p>We need to organize fed x. That needs to be done whether we get them out of the railway act into the nlrb or not. It would be good for the workers at fed x, good for the Teamsters at ups, good for all Teamsters, and good for all american workers. That would be an example of how a rising tide raises all ships.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brother Joe, post: 986879, member: 41239"] A fair share that I couldn't see a reasonable person dispute would be that wages would go up with productivity & inflation. That has not been the case since the 70's. george pullman the tyrant that he was only demanded a 6% profit. Since ups went public ceo pay as well as the rest of the higher ups have been getting more inline with the rest of nonunion american companies. That means a smaller share for Teamster members. Teamsters members are under paid and yes I am talking about feeder & package car drivers. The 22.3 & especially part timers are vastly underpaid. The problem though is that the average american worker is even worse off. This is due to many factors one of them being is the loss of union density, another the lack of class consciousness of the american worker. Workers in other western industrial countries have a higher standard of living, Germany for example. Union workers make $60 an hour. The biggest concerns I see is in pay is that of the part time worker. The minimum wage in some states has superceded the starting pay. There is a bill in the house to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. A $2 hour increase in the starting pay would not be unreasonable. Then of course everyone would get bumped up. An option for fulltimers might be to see some of that go into the pension instead of wages. Also we need the starting pay to go up each year. The problem with health care is the insurance companies. They are middle men that provide no useful service. They have 33% overhead. We need single payer health care, expanded medicare for all which only has a 3% overhead. Take insurance off the table & that can go into pension & increased wages. We need to organize fed x. That needs to be done whether we get them out of the railway act into the nlrb or not. It would be good for the workers at fed x, good for the Teamsters at ups, good for all Teamsters, and good for all american workers. That would be an example of how a rising tide raises all ships. [/QUOTE]
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