discuss: do unions promote laziness?
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Indy135
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u never been to a ups freight dock then
rocket man
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only a scab would ask that!
cino321
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705red
Browncafe Steward
This coming from a guy that has the teamsters logo as his avatar!
The union negotiates with the company your working rights, wages, holidays, vacation, seniority, medical plan, pension and spells it out in black and white.
Maybe some union jobs you sit around drinking coffee all day, but at ups you are moving non stop as long as you are on the clock. Now yes we are the highest paid in the industry, but we do more by 1030 am than the common worker does in a whole shift!
If you are really that unhappy at ups freight maybe you should apply for a restraunt job, you should be able to make some good tips with your personality!
The union negotiates with the company your working rights, wages, holidays, vacation, seniority, medical plan, pension and spells it out in black and white.
Maybe some union jobs you sit around drinking coffee all day, but at ups you are moving non stop as long as you are on the clock. Now yes we are the highest paid in the industry, but we do more by 1030 am than the common worker does in a whole shift!
If you are really that unhappy at ups freight maybe you should apply for a restraunt job, you should be able to make some good tips with your personality!
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
Then go ask this on a frieght thread.
rocket man
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99 del 31 pu 51 miles plus 6 oca,s 610 pm no helper. it was agood day being a PROUD UNION MEMBER.
Indy135
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its not that im that unhappy, im very good at what i do, and im already the 2nd fastest freight runner on my shift after being there 2 months
its just that nobody respects the next guy, when i load a trailer i think about how the next guy will unload it, and id like him to be able to unload it still on pallets and everything
but u all completely missed the topic anyways so it dont matter
Indy135
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think about it from my perspective
when i was 18 i worked at a CVS distribution center in indianapolis....on the shipping dock, and we worked our asses off....freight flying at you down conveyor belts, hot as hell in summer cold as
in the winter....for $9.65 an hour, non union...if you were too slow, they fire you or really discipline you until you can meet the quota
of course this job was non union....if they had unionized the pay would be more and the work load would be more realistic i guarantee it
now do you get what im saying? there are workers at ups freight roadway yellow usf holland that sit on forklifts all day and make the $23.00 an hour top pay...at CVS the highest paid guy at 17 years in and made $12.25
when i was 18 i worked at a CVS distribution center in indianapolis....on the shipping dock, and we worked our asses off....freight flying at you down conveyor belts, hot as hell in summer cold as
in the winter....for $9.65 an hour, non union...if you were too slow, they fire you or really discipline you until you can meet the quotaof course this job was non union....if they had unionized the pay would be more and the work load would be more realistic i guarantee it
now do you get what im saying? there are workers at ups freight roadway yellow usf holland that sit on forklifts all day and make the $23.00 an hour top pay...at CVS the highest paid guy at 17 years in and made $12.25
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
You are the one that started the 'rant about frieght', you are the one that beats the crap out of the inside a trailer, you are the one that says you aren't unhappy. How can you be the 2nd fastest runner when you waste time beating the crap out of trailers. BTW runner, you are screwing yourself and your 'brothers and sisters' by running. You must have missed that part!
Nobody misunderstood your question.
