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New contract keeping our part timers at min wage
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<blockquote data-quote="freeloader" data-source="post: 267461" data-attributes="member: 12163"><p>I cannot believe that there is no increase in the starting wage in this contract. Who will hump packages for $8.50 an hour when they can go flip burgers for that. They already can't get enough help because no one wants to work for that money.</p><p></p><p>I don't work for UPS anymore but when I got hired I started at $8 an hour and minimum wage at the time was around $5. So at that time UPS paid roughly 1.5 times the minimum wage. Apply that today (minimum wage approx $7 an hour) and the starting pay should be around $10.50.</p><p></p><p>I'm not a UPSer anymore but if I was, that would concern me. I'd want the starting rate to be higher so that UPS could be more selective in the new hires. That way, I'd be working alongside a person who stood out above the rest and wasn't the only person that applied for the job. With the current rate staying the same, then turnover will continue to skyrocket and the end result will be UPS squeezing more work out of the existing employees. And eventually they will just quit. Maybe that's the goal, but it doesn't make any sense to me.</p><p></p><p>Higher pay = more productivity, more reliability, less theft, less turnover. At least that's what my logic tells me. UPS must be applying some other logic because I just don't get it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="freeloader, post: 267461, member: 12163"] I cannot believe that there is no increase in the starting wage in this contract. Who will hump packages for $8.50 an hour when they can go flip burgers for that. They already can't get enough help because no one wants to work for that money. I don't work for UPS anymore but when I got hired I started at $8 an hour and minimum wage at the time was around $5. So at that time UPS paid roughly 1.5 times the minimum wage. Apply that today (minimum wage approx $7 an hour) and the starting pay should be around $10.50. I'm not a UPSer anymore but if I was, that would concern me. I'd want the starting rate to be higher so that UPS could be more selective in the new hires. That way, I'd be working alongside a person who stood out above the rest and wasn't the only person that applied for the job. With the current rate staying the same, then turnover will continue to skyrocket and the end result will be UPS squeezing more work out of the existing employees. And eventually they will just quit. Maybe that's the goal, but it doesn't make any sense to me. Higher pay = more productivity, more reliability, less theft, less turnover. At least that's what my logic tells me. UPS must be applying some other logic because I just don't get it. [/QUOTE]
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