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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 986894" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I pride myself on being reasonably open-minded, but for the life of me I cant wrap my head around any sort of a fair or equitable system for having production standards written into a labor agreement for UPS drivers.</p><p></p><p>My wife manages at a company where the employees sit at an assembly line and manufacture tubing assemblies. The production standards there are pretty simple and fair; basically, the operations manager sits down and actually <em>demonstrates </em>to the employees how long it should take to properly assemble each item. They are not expected to do anything that their supervisor is not capable of doing himself under indentical conditions.</p><p></p><p>UPS isnt an assembly line. I deal with more variables in the first 10 minutes after I clock on than an assembly line employee deals with in an entire week. The so called "allowances" that UPS generates for each aspect of our job were never intended to be fair or realistic to begin with, they were intended to create a "standard" for the average route that can only be met by working off of the clock. Only an idiot would allow UPS's production standards to be part of any labor agreement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 986894, member: 14668"] I pride myself on being reasonably open-minded, but for the life of me I cant wrap my head around any sort of a fair or equitable system for having production standards written into a labor agreement for UPS drivers. My wife manages at a company where the employees sit at an assembly line and manufacture tubing assemblies. The production standards there are pretty simple and fair; basically, the operations manager sits down and actually [I]demonstrates [/I]to the employees how long it should take to properly assemble each item. They are not expected to do anything that their supervisor is not capable of doing himself under indentical conditions. UPS isnt an assembly line. I deal with more variables in the first 10 minutes after I clock on than an assembly line employee deals with in an entire week. The so called "allowances" that UPS generates for each aspect of our job were never intended to be fair or realistic to begin with, they were intended to create a "standard" for the average route that can only be met by working off of the clock. Only an idiot would allow UPS's production standards to be part of any labor agreement. [/QUOTE]
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