Voluntary. Yes. I also viewed the supervisor's notes on this issue/assignment, and it said she is to record everyone specifically who refuses to write a letter. Who knows what this type of information could be used for by the unions some day down the road. They are also not letting us seal our own envelopes...they are making copies for the 2 senators' offices and copies for our "file". Wow. Like a little communist regime...but hey, check out our new country dictator....it fits.
The only plus side of all of this is to finally see an admission from company and teamsters alike that being unionized IS A DISADVANTAGE(of course the company knows it already). Because we screwed ourselves/UPS, now we have to fight to have congressmen/women change laws in order of detriment to other companies to "level the playing field". That's the propagandist's way of saying that UPS is on a lower level because of the unions and we need to bring the competition down to our level, which is where WE put ourselves through unionizing btw.
Yay! Now we can doom both companies instead of just our own!
And don't come at me with employee protection and evil corporate meany-heads, etc. etc. Employee protection/rights could have come about in a much smarter manner long ago.
The example given on the sup's sheet is that when we strike or are about to strike, FedEx steals our business by using the selling point that the customer needn't worry about them striking, as it is illegal for them to do....wow....somehow this is FedEx's fault?
We should all learn from GM and their downfall. And not the already re-written history. The real reason GM went under. Remember this folks, with no UPS, there is no ups union!
I will be writing the letter tomorrow, because i fear the reprocussions of not doing so in the near or distant future, but i have already called and spoken to my senators and told them what is going on and that it is not going on without intimidation so many of the letters are meaningless to them and should be. I told them to do the right thing for freedom and capitalism, not dirty unions.
