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Who's The Winner In A Strike?
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<blockquote data-quote="sort rat" data-source="post: 251361" data-attributes="member: 11991"><p>As far as "winning" a strike is concerned, a strike is a sacrifice. Obviously money is lost on both sides, but when negotiations come up for the next contract (like right now) UPS will remember the pain of financial loss. As for me the '97 strike hardly did damage to my bottom line, in fact we joke about as being a "three week cook out". Of course I don't want to strike, I have house payments like everyone else, plus I'm putting my wife through grad school but that doesn't mean I'll eat a contract I don't like. Sometimes, you just have to decide to bite the bullet. I doubt seriously if this contract is voted down that there will be a strike there is plenty of time before this one expires to work it out. </p><p>Please don't insult my intelligence by comparing a strike here at UPS with GM or any other company in financial stress. UPS is financially fine, in fact they in really good shape. We are in the service industry. Its kind of hard to farm out loaders and drivers to Mexico or China. This not the same thing as the auto industry. Yes, I know what you're thinking– gee the airlines are a service industry, and look at the shape the union s supposedly put them. Well I'm here to tell you (10 years at Pan Am) that business had its rules changed half way through the game (they called it deregulation). Its no accident that some airlines that make money (like SouthWest) pay more than those losing money. </p><p>As far as the losing a strike theory goes I remember what a friend from Eastern Airlines once told me when asked on why they (the IAM) went on strike knowing it would sink the company, "We didn't strike, we just up and quit our jobs." Like I said some times you have to make sacrifices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sort rat, post: 251361, member: 11991"] As far as "winning" a strike is concerned, a strike is a sacrifice. Obviously money is lost on both sides, but when negotiations come up for the next contract (like right now) UPS will remember the pain of financial loss. As for me the '97 strike hardly did damage to my bottom line, in fact we joke about as being a "three week cook out". Of course I don't want to strike, I have house payments like everyone else, plus I'm putting my wife through grad school but that doesn't mean I'll eat a contract I don't like. Sometimes, you just have to decide to bite the bullet. I doubt seriously if this contract is voted down that there will be a strike there is plenty of time before this one expires to work it out. Please don't insult my intelligence by comparing a strike here at UPS with GM or any other company in financial stress. UPS is financially fine, in fact they in really good shape. We are in the service industry. Its kind of hard to farm out loaders and drivers to Mexico or China. This not the same thing as the auto industry. Yes, I know what you're thinking– gee the airlines are a service industry, and look at the shape the union s supposedly put them. Well I'm here to tell you (10 years at Pan Am) that business had its rules changed half way through the game (they called it deregulation). Its no accident that some airlines that make money (like SouthWest) pay more than those losing money. As far as the losing a strike theory goes I remember what a friend from Eastern Airlines once told me when asked on why they (the IAM) went on strike knowing it would sink the company, "We didn't strike, we just up and quit our jobs." Like I said some times you have to make sacrifices. [/QUOTE]
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