Ah- those were the days. There are still 2 gals left at my old center who work part time for 28 bucks+ an hour with full benefits. One is the morning clerk (no one knows what she does other than gossip with everyone) and the other one does re-wrap and porter. You can only imagine how much the UPS would like to get rid of those two.P.S. Neither one of their husbands work
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In order to be making $28/hr , you would have to be hired back in the 70's and stayed until today. We have ( myself included ) 6 left.
Next week is going to be ugly. Thank God LLBEAN is coming back....anything work at this point is welcome, even more Pottery Barn!! (ok maybe thats going a bit too far)
Please control your avitar,we don't need any chimp attacks on the B.C Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape! taylor charleton heston
Rod i hear you! This was the very first contract that i voted yes on. It wasn't because i was on the negotiating team, it was because the national had settled 9 months prior. We had an advantage in this contract by looking in to the nationals and taking out what we felt was bad language. I am very happy with the outcome of gains we received this contract, however starting pay for ptimers is my biggest complaint with the contract! Thats slave wages!Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe the part time workers have a very good track record of union envolvement. If they organized as a group they wouldn't get crapped on as much as they have the last few contracts. The signing bonuses were a joke, but it was a brilliant way for the company to get the contracts passed. UPS might have bought alot of people off with the bonuses --------------but not all of us. I can honestly say I never voted yes on a contract during my whole career--- not that I was a "Rebel" or "Troublemaker" --- I just always felt that we could have done better. If the part timers ever did get organized they could make it real tuff for the full timers to continue getting the BIG piece of the pie. JMO
ain't that the truth.
