oldrps
Well-Known Member
It's not the same contractor model.Still using the contractor model. That is what hasn't changed Today what are you seeing? Box dumping out in the woods and are not isolated events. Hubs and terminals backed up for days if not weeks. Post after post after post of desperate contractor want ads begging for help, Offering pay that has gone up little from what they offered in past years. If you're a contractor you get what you pay for. If you want somebody to come in everyday, take governance over a route and go out there in all kinds of weather on a continuous daily basis and put up the same numbers as what that UPS driver puts up , this is the kind of person that as a contractor you simply cannot survive without. And to procure that type of person you're going to have to be willing to pay the going rate. A rate that is set by what others in the game pay .And they're not going to be treated in the way you think they should be treated..... Like second class citizens working for slave wages.... And here's why. The US birth rate over the past decade was the lowest since 1930 and 2021 was the lowest in the history of the nation. You continue to think that the supply of cheap and abundant labor waiting there to be exploited would never go away.....Well, it is pal.. and faster than you think. But don't worry sooner or later Fat Freddy will have no choice but to give the people over at Ground who are dragging around the motor freight that he stole off the LTL's, standing, stature and pay. He will no longer be able to go on devaluing the tasks they perform in order to please Wall Street and his own bank account..... And as Kellogg and Starbucks have come to discover....he might just ahve to deal with a labor union.
That is correct and the article goes on to disclose what they became. And to think that he got all this for just 2 billion in new shares.
I really don't care about the labor pool. Why do you bring this up in a conversation that you started saying nothing has changed with RPS/FedEx Ground since it started? Can you not keep on topic.
Go read the UPS forum, it ain't all peaches and cream over there. They may pay top dollar, but you work your tail off for it and deal with a lot of mind games from supervisors.
Again, you are clueless.