Why don't you ask him to get world peace while you're at it. You guys think split wages are a concession. Having the best healthcare of any working man in the USA is a concession. You guys are voting no no matter what.
.....and you can't see past your nose, or hear what's being said below you.
While I will acquiesce that "
concession-free" may have overstated things a bit, I maintain that the last 2 decades worth of contracts have systematically sold out the part timer and the unborn full time employee, piece by piece, brick by brick.
When I started part time in 1986, my hourly rate was twice that of the minimum wage and I got full healthcare benefits after 30 days.
Now in some areas UPS has to pay more than the contractual onus in order to satisfy minimum wage laws and these employees have to wait a year for benefits.
Concession.
When I started driving in 1994, I reached top scale in 24 months, now it's 48.
Back then there was no such thing as split raise, but there was a contract where a "signing bonus" was negotiated in lieu of a raise in a subsequent year.
Both are absolutely concessions!!!
In late 2007 UPS was allowed to withdraw from Central States, marking the beginning of the end for that fund and the PBGC, leaving many Teamsters from UPS and other crafts high and dry.
While many here think this was a good thing, wait until UPS finds a way to weasel out of the guarantee in the present contract, making us like the tens of thousands of UPSer's who retired prior to late 2007 as well many other Teamsters, SOL!!!!
Concession.
Next year, we will incur an unprecedented annual deductible for our already reduced healthcare benefits.
Another concession.
We didn't get what we have over the last hundred years by selling out the future, like we have for the last twenty years.
So again, if Sean O and company want to reinvent themselves and negotiate a fair and equitable contract for all UPSer's, I got there back.
If not, you're damn right, I will vote NO.
