the contract, or at least the local 804 supplement, says that the pace of work will be at the company's discretion. i do not remember the wording verbatim, but it gives the company the right to say what "fair day's work" is.
unfortuately, too many teamsters take advantage of, and skew the reasons why labor unions are around in the first place. at the night sort in my hub, teamsters constantly no-call and call-in (4 day weekends), and think there is nothing wrong with that because of their union protection. the discipline process is a joke, and it takes 12 months for someone to get fired over that kind of behavior (which all of us should realize is wrong, because, after all, this is a business). would you hire a teamster like that if you owned a business? probably not. you'd want reliable people that you can count on showing up to work.
let's be honest here. an employee is supposed to notify a supervisor 2 hours prior to start time that they aren't coming to work so we can try and find double shifter's to do the work. at my hub, we're lucky if they call 5 minutes before the start of their shift because they usually don't call ar all (see above paragraph if you are going to bitch about supervisors holding people accountable). does that give me any time to get someone into work, realistically? am i really going to bend over backwards to obide by the contract when i'm getting **** on and sodomized by teamsters? i will work when i have to work until the teamsters stop their bull**** protection of employees who don't come to work. are the stewards that stupid that they would rather fight with magagement for the sake of fighting, rather than being pissed off at their own teamsters for screwing them out of pension credits?
this is a business, and sups have to do what they have to do to get the packages out when teamsters don't show up for work. we can't just keep hiring people every week and end up with 100 people on the schedule just to hope that some people show up. that is NOT how to run a business. the teamsters make more work for themselves by accepting the behavior of their members. they believe they are being good brothers and sisters when they are sticking it in their own asses.
also, stop crying about UPS stock. it's clear that none of you knows anything about the subject. FREE CASH FLOW is what allows UPS to expand and innovate. They don't do this by decreasing earnings. Such things have to be cleared by shareholders. CEO's and the like do not just do whatever they want without shareholder approval. If they did, that would be a major, illegal SEC violation. UPS stock is considered one of the best income-investor stocks to buy for a reason. You need to stop thinking you know everything about UPS stock just because you work for them. Give me my 10% off the purchase of stock, along with dividends, and years of compunding....and I will be one happy person 30 years from now even if the stock never goes past $85