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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 503612" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>A better and simpler solution...would be for the union to inform the company that, unless clear proof of negligence is shown, the union will NOT allow drivers to be terminated for minor incidents that <em>do not involve the safety of the employee or the public </em>and will instead send all such cases to arbitration.</p><p> </p><p>The underlying problem here is that UPS is unable or unwilling to make a distinction between accidents that involve genuine unsafe behavior vs. the minor and incidental property damage that is the inevitable result of providing delivery service to remote addresses with long driveways.</p><p> </p><p>There is no valid comparison between backing the vehicle up over a child vs. cracking a rear view mirror on a branch in the dark.</p><p> </p><p>Unsafe behaviors that threaten the safety of the public should not be tolerated. We need to stay out of residential driveways and walk the stops off whenever possible. But in the <em>real</em> world that isnt always possible, so for drivers who must go into such driveways we need to focus on keeping the public and ourselves safe while not threatening to terminate them over a tire mark on a blade of grass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 503612, member: 14668"] A better and simpler solution...would be for the union to inform the company that, unless clear proof of negligence is shown, the union will NOT allow drivers to be terminated for minor incidents that [I]do not involve the safety of the employee or the public [/I]and will instead send all such cases to arbitration. The underlying problem here is that UPS is unable or unwilling to make a distinction between accidents that involve genuine unsafe behavior vs. the minor and incidental property damage that is the inevitable result of providing delivery service to remote addresses with long driveways. There is no valid comparison between backing the vehicle up over a child vs. cracking a rear view mirror on a branch in the dark. Unsafe behaviors that threaten the safety of the public should not be tolerated. We need to stay out of residential driveways and walk the stops off whenever possible. But in the [I]real[/I] world that isnt always possible, so for drivers who must go into such driveways we need to focus on keeping the public and ourselves safe while not threatening to terminate them over a tire mark on a blade of grass. [/QUOTE]
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