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Who's The Winner In A Strike?
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<blockquote data-quote="Runner" data-source="post: 251140" data-attributes="member: 10107"><p>I too thought ahead and took two weeks vacation in 97. I still have all the UPS handouts from their offer. Looking back health, welfare and pension benifits were clearly better under UPS's offer. I'm putting out $200 a month for prescriptions that would have cost me $5 under UPS's plan. I'm sure we would be looking at more than the $101 per full time year, that I'm currently looking at, for my pension. UPS's offer had $1.50 raise over 5 years vs the $3.00 we received. They had 2 profit sharing payouts, one in 97 for $3,060 and one in 2000 to be determined. Which is better depends on how much longer you would be working at UPS. There were many other differences that depending on your circumstances which were better in one plan or the other. From talking to other drivers in 97 I think had we been able to vote on UPS's offer it may have passed. To say we voted to strike is very <strong>disingenuous.</strong> The only thing we relly have as a union in negotiations is the threat to withhold our services. So taking a strike authorization vote 6 months earlier has to pass or we go into negotiations with no leverage. Had we been presented UPS's offer and than asked to strike, I doubt there would have been a strike.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Runner, post: 251140, member: 10107"] I too thought ahead and took two weeks vacation in 97. I still have all the UPS handouts from their offer. Looking back health, welfare and pension benifits were clearly better under UPS's offer. I'm putting out $200 a month for prescriptions that would have cost me $5 under UPS's plan. I'm sure we would be looking at more than the $101 per full time year, that I'm currently looking at, for my pension. UPS's offer had $1.50 raise over 5 years vs the $3.00 we received. They had 2 profit sharing payouts, one in 97 for $3,060 and one in 2000 to be determined. Which is better depends on how much longer you would be working at UPS. There were many other differences that depending on your circumstances which were better in one plan or the other. From talking to other drivers in 97 I think had we been able to vote on UPS's offer it may have passed. To say we voted to strike is very [B]disingenuous.[/B] The only thing we relly have as a union in negotiations is the threat to withhold our services. So taking a strike authorization vote 6 months earlier has to pass or we go into negotiations with no leverage. Had we been presented UPS's offer and than asked to strike, I doubt there would have been a strike. [/QUOTE]
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