Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Union Issues
Local officials picketing outside my building last night.
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1201571" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>I have to categorically disagree with you here. Even with the shift of volume to smalls due to e-commerce and the "NextGen" automated small sort systems in the hubs, ORION, PAS, proposed safety enhancements to feeder cabs including lane integrity monitoring, etc etc. UPS could not effectively replace the current workforce and still pump out volume the way they're doing now. I firmly believe UPS will try and really take us on in the future -- they flirted with the idea over health care and may have even figured they would "force" us into a Taft-Hartley plan (TeamCare) in the grand scheme of things in order to get retiree/future retiree healthcare liabilities off the books and improve their stock price. </p><p></p><p>anonymous stated in a post a week or so ago that UPS would love to re-organize into a purely business-to-business shipper and eliminate residential deliveries; the effectiveness and growing market share of the FedEx Ground model ($15/hr, no overtime, no benefits, contractors maintain the vehicle.. effectively less than half of the total compensation package of a UPS driver) is something I constantly hear even as a steward during local level meetings with the regional labor manager. Additionally, with Amazon and even eBay experimenting with same-day deliveries from their distribution centers via the 1099 independent contract model for delivery drivers (no benefits, no overtime, no protection), I could see UPS chomping at the bit to cut residential deliveries out of their business model and let FedEx Ground and the other "rising shippers" eat the cost of doing that for much, much cheaper. </p><p></p><p>When UPS pushed their "last, best, and final" offer in 1997, they were still a privately held company that was strangely hell-bent on shoving an awful contract (including turning feeder work over to an owner/operator model) down our throats. That was back during the more paternalistic days of management and many senior managers claim that the strike was really when that relationship was irrevocably altered. Point blank: Post-IPO, a significant portion of UPS is now owned by Wall Street: hedge funds, JP Morgan Chase, and other assorted financiers and banksters (the same people that crashed our economy and came out even richer than before) that want to wring every cent out of this company that they can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1201571, member: 42270"] I have to categorically disagree with you here. Even with the shift of volume to smalls due to e-commerce and the "NextGen" automated small sort systems in the hubs, ORION, PAS, proposed safety enhancements to feeder cabs including lane integrity monitoring, etc etc. UPS could not effectively replace the current workforce and still pump out volume the way they're doing now. I firmly believe UPS will try and really take us on in the future -- they flirted with the idea over health care and may have even figured they would "force" us into a Taft-Hartley plan (TeamCare) in the grand scheme of things in order to get retiree/future retiree healthcare liabilities off the books and improve their stock price. anonymous stated in a post a week or so ago that UPS would love to re-organize into a purely business-to-business shipper and eliminate residential deliveries; the effectiveness and growing market share of the FedEx Ground model ($15/hr, no overtime, no benefits, contractors maintain the vehicle.. effectively less than half of the total compensation package of a UPS driver) is something I constantly hear even as a steward during local level meetings with the regional labor manager. Additionally, with Amazon and even eBay experimenting with same-day deliveries from their distribution centers via the 1099 independent contract model for delivery drivers (no benefits, no overtime, no protection), I could see UPS chomping at the bit to cut residential deliveries out of their business model and let FedEx Ground and the other "rising shippers" eat the cost of doing that for much, much cheaper. When UPS pushed their "last, best, and final" offer in 1997, they were still a privately held company that was strangely hell-bent on shoving an awful contract (including turning feeder work over to an owner/operator model) down our throats. That was back during the more paternalistic days of management and many senior managers claim that the strike was really when that relationship was irrevocably altered. Point blank: Post-IPO, a significant portion of UPS is now owned by Wall Street: hedge funds, JP Morgan Chase, and other assorted financiers and banksters (the same people that crashed our economy and came out even richer than before) that want to wring every cent out of this company that they can. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Union Issues
Local officials picketing outside my building last night.
Top