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<blockquote data-quote="MyTripisCut" data-source="post: 5068875" data-attributes="member: 34797"><p>Maybe you have it the other way around?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://theweek.com/feature/opinion/1006947/time-for-businesses-to-humanize-or-die[/URL]</p><p></p><p></p><p>From the above article.</p><p>But there are sound business reasons to invest in one's workforce, too, especially right now. For example, at <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/highly-paid-union-workers-give-ups-a-surprise-win-in-delivery-wars/ar-AAQkwbY" target="_blank"><em>Bloomberg</em></a>, Thomas Black draws an instructive comparison between UPS, which is unionized, and FedEx, which is not. UPS pays the best salaries in the industry, and also has good benefits and reasonable hours. FedEx, by contrast, uses contract workers for most of its last-mile deliveries — part of a classic exploitative business model that pushes as much cost and risk onto workers as possible.</p><p></p><p>The difference is beneficial for the whole company. In fact, UPS brass ought to write a thank-you note to the Teamsters who helped create their style of operation through organizing and <a href="https://labornotes.org/2017/08/1997-ups-strike-beating-big-business-business-unionism" target="_blank">massive strikes</a>. High salaries, good benefits, and decent work conditions have helped UPS retain its workforce and deal with pandemic-related labor problems and enormous delivery volumes. <em>Because</em> of that high labor investment, UPS is collecting big profits and retaining a 95 percent on-time delivery average, while FedEx is hemorrhaging contract workers — losing $450 million and counting on labor issues — while pushing on-time delivery down to 84 percent and denting its stock price.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MyTripisCut, post: 5068875, member: 34797"] Maybe you have it the other way around? [URL unfurl="true"]https://theweek.com/feature/opinion/1006947/time-for-businesses-to-humanize-or-die[/URL] From the above article. But there are sound business reasons to invest in one's workforce, too, especially right now. For example, at [URL='https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/highly-paid-union-workers-give-ups-a-surprise-win-in-delivery-wars/ar-AAQkwbY'][I]Bloomberg[/I][/URL], Thomas Black draws an instructive comparison between UPS, which is unionized, and FedEx, which is not. UPS pays the best salaries in the industry, and also has good benefits and reasonable hours. FedEx, by contrast, uses contract workers for most of its last-mile deliveries — part of a classic exploitative business model that pushes as much cost and risk onto workers as possible. The difference is beneficial for the whole company. In fact, UPS brass ought to write a thank-you note to the Teamsters who helped create their style of operation through organizing and [URL='https://labornotes.org/2017/08/1997-ups-strike-beating-big-business-business-unionism']massive strikes[/URL]. High salaries, good benefits, and decent work conditions have helped UPS retain its workforce and deal with pandemic-related labor problems and enormous delivery volumes. [I]Because[/I] of that high labor investment, UPS is collecting big profits and retaining a 95 percent on-time delivery average, while FedEx is hemorrhaging contract workers — losing $450 million and counting on labor issues — while pushing on-time delivery down to 84 percent and denting its stock price. [/QUOTE]
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