Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Union Issues
what do part timers want in 2013
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Island" data-source="post: 995911" data-attributes="member: 42417"><p>I'm PT, I have a lot of very close FT friends who I am more than happy to work beside (even knowing they make 4x more than me to do the same work). Just because one of my friends literally owns three cars and two houses and I have a 2-bedroom apartment with two roommates does not mean that we hate each other. I'm going to completely ignore all the arguing between FT and PT folks here and get back to the point. </p><p></p><p>What I want in the new contract is more equality all-around. In my sort, there is no union presence. None. I would very much like to have a preferred position, I would very much like to get my 3.5 daily, and I would very much like to not be sent out of the building before 40-50 other part-timers who have less seniority than me but get an hour a day more than I do. I would also very much like to keep my pay and benefits. Given the utter lack of comparable jobs anywhere, I'm pretty much stuck at UPS for the foreseeable future and in the past I have worked <strong>three</strong> other occupations to just scrape by. I came here for the benefits, literally on the doorstep of the recession, and now I find I'm stuck here and my local has the nerve to say that the union is going to be giving more perks to the people who pay the most in dues (FT drivers and feeders), and pay for those perks by bargaining away the few false promises they make to the part-timers like myself.</p><p> What I want is solidarity. No givebacks. Stronger language to prevent production harassment, more full-time jobs. My building has actually been reducing full-time positions. I know some people who were hired about five years before me and got into full-time jobs immediately after hire. When I was applying, HR told me I could be a part-time driver in three years. That's what I wanted. Then I found out that if I made part-time driver, I'd be making a lot less than I make now for a couple years. I'm not sure I could survive that, especially when the shift would require a more varied schedule, which would eat up a lot of my daily time. Harder to work other jobs when UPS changes its times. So I'm waiting, hoping to get into a dreaded split shift situation, which is not what I came here to do originally. But the lowest seniority split shifter has around 12-years FT seniority and that means that even if a few positions are added, there are about 300 other people in my building ahead of me in line because they've been waiting for 12 years for that job.</p><p></p><p> I'd like to not scrape by anymore, and if the company takes any of my benefits or raise pennies away, I'll be leaving the union the same day and the company two weeks later.</p><p></p><p>Aside: there's a petition on change . org that Make UPS Deliver has been spreading around. It's addressed to the IBT, and describes a platform for the new contract that asks for no givebacks, solid language and more equal treatment of employees. I'd say that also infers that seniority be simplified and not... as stupidly complicated as it is for some people who have had different classifications.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Island, post: 995911, member: 42417"] I'm PT, I have a lot of very close FT friends who I am more than happy to work beside (even knowing they make 4x more than me to do the same work). Just because one of my friends literally owns three cars and two houses and I have a 2-bedroom apartment with two roommates does not mean that we hate each other. I'm going to completely ignore all the arguing between FT and PT folks here and get back to the point. What I want in the new contract is more equality all-around. In my sort, there is no union presence. None. I would very much like to have a preferred position, I would very much like to get my 3.5 daily, and I would very much like to not be sent out of the building before 40-50 other part-timers who have less seniority than me but get an hour a day more than I do. I would also very much like to keep my pay and benefits. Given the utter lack of comparable jobs anywhere, I'm pretty much stuck at UPS for the foreseeable future and in the past I have worked [B]three[/B] other occupations to just scrape by. I came here for the benefits, literally on the doorstep of the recession, and now I find I'm stuck here and my local has the nerve to say that the union is going to be giving more perks to the people who pay the most in dues (FT drivers and feeders), and pay for those perks by bargaining away the few false promises they make to the part-timers like myself. What I want is solidarity. No givebacks. Stronger language to prevent production harassment, more full-time jobs. My building has actually been reducing full-time positions. I know some people who were hired about five years before me and got into full-time jobs immediately after hire. When I was applying, HR told me I could be a part-time driver in three years. That's what I wanted. Then I found out that if I made part-time driver, I'd be making a lot less than I make now for a couple years. I'm not sure I could survive that, especially when the shift would require a more varied schedule, which would eat up a lot of my daily time. Harder to work other jobs when UPS changes its times. So I'm waiting, hoping to get into a dreaded split shift situation, which is not what I came here to do originally. But the lowest seniority split shifter has around 12-years FT seniority and that means that even if a few positions are added, there are about 300 other people in my building ahead of me in line because they've been waiting for 12 years for that job. I'd like to not scrape by anymore, and if the company takes any of my benefits or raise pennies away, I'll be leaving the union the same day and the company two weeks later. Aside: there's a petition on change . org that Make UPS Deliver has been spreading around. It's addressed to the IBT, and describes a platform for the new contract that asks for no givebacks, solid language and more equal treatment of employees. I'd say that also infers that seniority be simplified and not... as stupidly complicated as it is for some people who have had different classifications. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Union Issues
what do part timers want in 2013
Top