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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 867081" data-attributes="member: 12570"><p>When a situation like this exists, equilibrium must be restored. Businesses cannot compete when there is such disparity between compensation models. There will either be a rush towards the lowest common denominator, or there will be unionization within the lowest compensated business models.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">While the latter would be the ideal the former seems much more likely.</span> </p><p></p><p>Between the RLA for Express, the IC/ISP business model for Ground and the lack of cajones within the IBT, the outcome is inevitable - a gradual race to the bottom, with equilibrium established somewhere around $35-40,000/yr compensation for full time wage employees. </p><p></p><p>I honestly don't see how UPS can continue to compete against this for another 5 years, forget about another 14 years (<em>without radically altering its compensation for its drivers</em>). </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">Can you say SurePost?</span></p><p></p><p>So, the situation boils down to the fact that if the current UPS drivers want to protect <u>their</u> compensation package, they have a vested interest in making sure the compensation packages of Express and Ground wage employees are somehow increased. In the end, the playing field MUST be leveled, free market economics dictates that a disparity such as currently exists cannot be supported for long.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">This is why I am fairly certain that you will see a two-tiered wage structure approved in 2013.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 867081, member: 12570"] When a situation like this exists, equilibrium must be restored. Businesses cannot compete when there is such disparity between compensation models. There will either be a rush towards the lowest common denominator, or there will be unionization within the lowest compensated business models. [COLOR=#ff0000]While the latter would be the ideal the former seems much more likely.[/COLOR] Between the RLA for Express, the IC/ISP business model for Ground and the lack of cajones within the IBT, the outcome is inevitable - a gradual race to the bottom, with equilibrium established somewhere around $35-40,000/yr compensation for full time wage employees. I honestly don't see how UPS can continue to compete against this for another 5 years, forget about another 14 years ([I]without radically altering its compensation for its drivers[/I]). [COLOR=#ff0000]Can you say SurePost?[/COLOR] So, the situation boils down to the fact that if the current UPS drivers want to protect [U]their[/U] compensation package, they have a vested interest in making sure the compensation packages of Express and Ground wage employees are somehow increased. In the end, the playing field MUST be leveled, free market economics dictates that a disparity such as currently exists cannot be supported for long. [COLOR=#ff0000]This is why I am fairly certain that you will see a two-tiered wage structure approved in 2013.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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