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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1120509" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>RPS wasn't nearly as big as Ground is now. Fred bought an idea, a framework. And while it's more profitable per pkg the bulk of the business is still overnight. What they did was while building Ground they had to show profit for Wall Street so they took from us to keep profits up. Ground is catching up in profits, but it's this latest move towards Ground that they've been working towards for years that's really starting to cannibalize Express. I've met plenty of decent Ground people, they're just trying to get by like the rest of us. It's this whole concept of holding labor costs down so that a relative few can do extraordinarily well while looking us in the eye and telling us how much FedEx cares about us and our future that has us upset. Not expecting UPS pay, just enough to have some choices. This is a hustle business, not a casual job. We are out in all kinds of weather, we have to run a sort, we have to be flexible on our start times, we can never really plan for anything outside of work that starts close to the end of our day, we have to deal with dangerous goods and international, we have to manage our rts around various commitments, we have to be willing at the drop of a hat to take on freight in other areas we aren't familiar with, to work long hours around holidays, we have to give and give and in return we get squat for raises, our pension plan terminated, our healthcare premiums raised, and more and more demands to find ways to be more productive, further reducing our pay. And now lopping off a big chunk of our volume so that it's hard to get a full 40, let alone overtime. They in effect have taken back most of the little raises they gave us in the last 5 years, putting us further behind the eight ball as inflation marches on. It's not that Ground people are terrible, etc, it's being told we'd top out in 7 or 8 years, that we have a future, when all along they had no intention to provide a better life for us, just use us to cash in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1120509, member: 24302"] RPS wasn't nearly as big as Ground is now. Fred bought an idea, a framework. And while it's more profitable per pkg the bulk of the business is still overnight. What they did was while building Ground they had to show profit for Wall Street so they took from us to keep profits up. Ground is catching up in profits, but it's this latest move towards Ground that they've been working towards for years that's really starting to cannibalize Express. I've met plenty of decent Ground people, they're just trying to get by like the rest of us. It's this whole concept of holding labor costs down so that a relative few can do extraordinarily well while looking us in the eye and telling us how much FedEx cares about us and our future that has us upset. Not expecting UPS pay, just enough to have some choices. This is a hustle business, not a casual job. We are out in all kinds of weather, we have to run a sort, we have to be flexible on our start times, we can never really plan for anything outside of work that starts close to the end of our day, we have to deal with dangerous goods and international, we have to manage our rts around various commitments, we have to be willing at the drop of a hat to take on freight in other areas we aren't familiar with, to work long hours around holidays, we have to give and give and in return we get squat for raises, our pension plan terminated, our healthcare premiums raised, and more and more demands to find ways to be more productive, further reducing our pay. And now lopping off a big chunk of our volume so that it's hard to get a full 40, let alone overtime. They in effect have taken back most of the little raises they gave us in the last 5 years, putting us further behind the eight ball as inflation marches on. It's not that Ground people are terrible, etc, it's being told we'd top out in 7 or 8 years, that we have a future, when all along they had no intention to provide a better life for us, just use us to cash in. [/QUOTE]
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