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<blockquote data-quote="JonFrum" data-source="post: 336949"><p>Bug,</p><p></p><p>I've been a UPSer and a member of Local 42 in Lynn, Ma. since 1973. We voted to accept the Master 90 to 42, and to accept the New England Supplement 94 to 38. </p><p></p><p>I maintain there was very little discussion of the issues before the vote. Partly because of the Hoffa information brownout, and partly because of the APWA distraction which coincidently occured during the pre-vote period. Most people didn't know what they were voting on, or didn't vote. With so much turnover at UPS, and with the gulf between part-timers, full-time package drivers, and feeder drivers, most members are not well informed. Just look at how many people don't even know the new contract has been in effect since December 19, 2007 and not August 1, 2008! </p><p></p><p>I wish I could give every UPSer nationwide a test on the Contract details. I'm betting most would flunk. I try to remedy this sad situation by posting information on BrownCafe. I wish more people would get information from TDU.</p><p></p><p>I don't fault people for being uninformed, or asking questions. If someone is still uninformed as the voting deadline approaches, I'd rather they just not vote instead of blindly voting "yes." I am disappointed with those who willfully vote ""yes" for a contract that contains so many bad features, both new language, and old. Such people impose the bad features on the rest of us, and many spent their careers at UPS complaining about things that they, in fact, vote to impose on themselves. Just look at all the gripes posted on BrownCafe. I'll bet some of these posters actually voted for present and past contracts that allowed the very situations to which they now object, either by specific language, or by contract silence on the issue. </p><p></p><p>When you vote "yes" you are voting to accept ever word of the contract, to accept every issue that went unaddressed, every problematic old language that went unchanged, and you are voting to impose this on the "no" voters, and those who didn't vote, and non-Teamster members of the bargaining unit, as well as all the "unborn" who will be hired in the future. We are now stuck with this contract for over five years and seven months. This may be the begining of the end of the Teamsters Union.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonFrum, post: 336949"] Bug, I've been a UPSer and a member of Local 42 in Lynn, Ma. since 1973. We voted to accept the Master 90 to 42, and to accept the New England Supplement 94 to 38. I maintain there was very little discussion of the issues before the vote. Partly because of the Hoffa information brownout, and partly because of the APWA distraction which coincidently occured during the pre-vote period. Most people didn't know what they were voting on, or didn't vote. With so much turnover at UPS, and with the gulf between part-timers, full-time package drivers, and feeder drivers, most members are not well informed. Just look at how many people don't even know the new contract has been in effect since December 19, 2007 and not August 1, 2008! I wish I could give every UPSer nationwide a test on the Contract details. I'm betting most would flunk. I try to remedy this sad situation by posting information on BrownCafe. I wish more people would get information from TDU. I don't fault people for being uninformed, or asking questions. If someone is still uninformed as the voting deadline approaches, I'd rather they just not vote instead of blindly voting "yes." I am disappointed with those who willfully vote ""yes" for a contract that contains so many bad features, both new language, and old. Such people impose the bad features on the rest of us, and many spent their careers at UPS complaining about things that they, in fact, vote to impose on themselves. Just look at all the gripes posted on BrownCafe. I'll bet some of these posters actually voted for present and past contracts that allowed the very situations to which they now object, either by specific language, or by contract silence on the issue. When you vote "yes" you are voting to accept ever word of the contract, to accept every issue that went unaddressed, every problematic old language that went unchanged, and you are voting to impose this on the "no" voters, and those who didn't vote, and non-Teamster members of the bargaining unit, as well as all the "unborn" who will be hired in the future. We are now stuck with this contract for over five years and seven months. This may be the begining of the end of the Teamsters Union. [/QUOTE]
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