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2 tier pay system, easy 100 or not?
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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1001067" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p>Most building trades (carpenter, electrician, iron worker, etc.), have a 3-5 year progression to top pay. They work hard those years, but ultimately it is worth it. It'd take you 5-7 years, maybe longer, going the college route for the most part. A longer progression is not cruel.</p><p></p><p>We would not be selling out future workers if a two-tiered system was in place. Among other things, as employees hit that new top rate they'd get raises, much as 22.3s do now (and when you have 22.3s working beside older employees under the close-to-driver scale, isn't that a two-tiered system?) Selling out future employees would be UPS becoming even weaker compared to FedEx ground, where even those most valued by their contractors probably don't make $20/hr. And to be sure, for many FedEx ground is the future. A $25/HR wage is not FedEx Ground. People are more and more becoming envious (jealous but with the added desire of not just wanting what you have but depriving YOU of it as well) of union jobs, and so we will not have sympathy on our sides. A strike would be disasterous for UPS, and thus for us. That is the bigger picture right now, not the hardship of being under a contract where at $25/hr you'd still be the best paid in the industry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1001067, member: 32753"] Most building trades (carpenter, electrician, iron worker, etc.), have a 3-5 year progression to top pay. They work hard those years, but ultimately it is worth it. It'd take you 5-7 years, maybe longer, going the college route for the most part. A longer progression is not cruel. We would not be selling out future workers if a two-tiered system was in place. Among other things, as employees hit that new top rate they'd get raises, much as 22.3s do now (and when you have 22.3s working beside older employees under the close-to-driver scale, isn't that a two-tiered system?) Selling out future employees would be UPS becoming even weaker compared to FedEx ground, where even those most valued by their contractors probably don't make $20/hr. And to be sure, for many FedEx ground is the future. A $25/HR wage is not FedEx Ground. People are more and more becoming envious (jealous but with the added desire of not just wanting what you have but depriving YOU of it as well) of union jobs, and so we will not have sympathy on our sides. A strike would be disasterous for UPS, and thus for us. That is the bigger picture right now, not the hardship of being under a contract where at $25/hr you'd still be the best paid in the industry. [/QUOTE]
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