12 dollars an hour starting wage
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bleedinbrown58
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Get used to it....I still have to do that.
1BROWNWRENCH
Amatuer Malthusian
I can pretty much start as early as I want within reason so long as I have a worthy project.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
that's not the national contract.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
BS. There is skilled and unskilled PTers. Whether or not you sort, unload or load....the preload shift is considered skilled, the local sort is considered unskilled. Local sort new hires make a dollar less an hour than preload. Therefore, all preload new hires make 11/hr to start....SORTING has nothing to do with it.
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It's $10 for Preload; here, the $1 premium ($11) is given only to loaders. All other jobs (everything in the input, small sort as well as pick-offs) do not earn it. Not certain about clerks as all of ours are FT. Many of us were hired in another era when the premium was given to everybody, and we've been grandfathered - my time card code is "UNSKILLED" but I've never lost the $1. Nationally, the #1 job shortage is warehouse workers, so in some locations I expect local management desperately gives the $1 to everybody still.
There have been many postings on here in the past in which UPS has argued that PAS & automated sorts do not qualify for the $1. Here, the sorters should earn it but nobody has filed on it.
Our Input steward is a
bag, at best. The blacks in the back voted in a block & made sure one of their own was the representative & soon after he got a cushy job as one of only a few people who get to SPA all day, instead of having to unload or sort (we rotate). He'll throw you under the bus in order to get brownie points necessary to keep it.
UpsAngel
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I pretty sure by sort they mean skilled. Correct me if i'm wrong.
Cementups
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bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
Unloaders working preload still make 11/hr to start. All preloaders start at the same rate. I am not wrong.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
That was under a different contract.
oldngray
nowhere special
Preloaders make more because its a skilled position but I wouldn't be surprised if that went away with all of the dumbing around going on.
Cementups
Box Monkey
Probably because they fall under the "employees working high volume direct or low volume direct shall receive the preload/sorter rate."
Cementups
Box Monkey
Preloaders also get more because it's sort of a shift differential. Though that is not written.
UpsAngel
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Bulk driver was considered skilled until recently.
UpsAngel
Well-Known Member
Unloaders at my center fall under other. They do not get that extra $1.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
Maybe that's in your local supplement...not in my local. All preloaders start at the same rate. New hires are bounced around from unload to loading like ping pong balls. Do you honestly think that their hourly rate will vary a dollar depending on where they worked on a particular day?? No! You can hit that disagree button all you want...it doesn't mean you're right.
Funny, you couldn't figure out the bottom of your paystub to determine your number of sick days....and you have to ask whether a preloader who's been here six years longer than you has seniority over you..but suddenly you're Rainman with the contract. Riiight.
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