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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 549870" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p><span style="color: blue">As far as breaking the union consider a couple of points:</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">The teamsters were well prepared for this strike. They had thier marketing plan already set up selling the part timers wanting full time jobs theme. They had professional spokes people already hired to go out on tv and sell that theme. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">UPS on the other hand stumbled badly in public and quickly lost the marketing war because they were not prepared for the strike. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Jim Kelly went on meet the press and was constantly asked about replacement workers. He refused to consider that option and continously answered that he just wanted to get this settled and get "our people" back. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">As the strike continued into the third week we had large shippers begging us to start picking them up. As we cleaned up our system during this time the plan that was being formulated would have had us picking up from these large shippers charging them premium prices with no time guarantees. We could have ridden this strike out for a long time charging premium prices. Shippers would have had no other option but to pay what we asked. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Put it all together and I think it shows that UPS was ill prepared for any such concept of breaking the union and had no intent to do so. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 549870, member: 1912"] [COLOR=blue]As far as breaking the union consider a couple of points:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]The teamsters were well prepared for this strike. They had thier marketing plan already set up selling the part timers wanting full time jobs theme. They had professional spokes people already hired to go out on tv and sell that theme. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]UPS on the other hand stumbled badly in public and quickly lost the marketing war because they were not prepared for the strike. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Jim Kelly went on meet the press and was constantly asked about replacement workers. He refused to consider that option and continously answered that he just wanted to get this settled and get "our people" back. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]As the strike continued into the third week we had large shippers begging us to start picking them up. As we cleaned up our system during this time the plan that was being formulated would have had us picking up from these large shippers charging them premium prices with no time guarantees. We could have ridden this strike out for a long time charging premium prices. Shippers would have had no other option but to pay what we asked. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Put it all together and I think it shows that UPS was ill prepared for any such concept of breaking the union and had no intent to do so. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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