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IF the contract is voted down, what issues do you think will be addressed?
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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1154544" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p>I believe if the TA is voted down, <em>because of </em>the awareness of the dire situation a strike would cause for <strong>both</strong> parties, most of the membership would be opposed to the strike, even if they overwhelmingly disapprove of the TA. I think it has been said enough: this isn't 1997; we wouldn't have the support of the public, and in this age of youtube, twitter, etc. where ill-advised actions and the angry response generated by them can be memorialized for future generations of shippers and receivers/consumers, many, many more may never forgive, more so than '97 (and I have encountered shippers who will have nothing to do with UPS because of that, and I was not even around for that strike). And even if we don't strike, it is not in UPS' interests to stall us out for even a couple months, as the jitters it would cause in shippers would have a similar, albeit smaller effect; however, on Wall St. if a company's CEO sneezes half the market will sell because of his 'imminent death/incapacitating illness' and resulting effect it will have on the company. The board doesn't want to provoke them to sell, even if it is only over "jitters".</p><p></p><p>I.E., the contract can be pushed back across the table for a better revision, without having to be anxious that doing so must mean we will strike.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1154544, member: 32753"] I believe if the TA is voted down, [I]because of [/I]the awareness of the dire situation a strike would cause for [B]both[/B] parties, most of the membership would be opposed to the strike, even if they overwhelmingly disapprove of the TA. I think it has been said enough: this isn't 1997; we wouldn't have the support of the public, and in this age of youtube, twitter, etc. where ill-advised actions and the angry response generated by them can be memorialized for future generations of shippers and receivers/consumers, many, many more may never forgive, more so than '97 (and I have encountered shippers who will have nothing to do with UPS because of that, and I was not even around for that strike). And even if we don't strike, it is not in UPS' interests to stall us out for even a couple months, as the jitters it would cause in shippers would have a similar, albeit smaller effect; however, on Wall St. if a company's CEO sneezes half the market will sell because of his 'imminent death/incapacitating illness' and resulting effect it will have on the company. The board doesn't want to provoke them to sell, even if it is only over "jitters". I.E., the contract can be pushed back across the table for a better revision, without having to be anxious that doing so must mean we will strike. [/QUOTE]
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