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[542thruNthru]

It is back breaking and HOT work. I did it for 10 years and my body is still reminding me. They absolutely deserve more than Joe Blow flipping burgers.

That being said, the quality of hub workers, at least when I was there, has gone WAY down. We used to bust our asses everyday just for bragging rights. It was a pride thing. If you were the slacker on the PD, you were ridiculed. We had no respect for you. Now these guys are touching their phones more than packages and I swear I get a contact high walking behind them coming through the guard shack.

Yet now you're a feeder driver. That pride for hard work vanished like a fart in the wind!

 

[Yeet]

Yet now you're a feeder driver. That pride for hard work vanished like a fart in the wind!

Vanished like a double bacon burger.

 

[Yolo]

It is back breaking and HOT work. I did it for 10 years and my body is still reminding me. They absolutely deserve more than Joe Blow flipping burgers.

That being said, the quality of hub workers, at least when I was there, has gone WAY down. We used to bust our asses everyday just for bragging rights. It was a pride thing. If you were the slacker on the PD, you were ridiculed. We had no respect for you. Now these guys are touching their phones more than packages and I swear I get a contact high walking behind them coming through the guard shack.

I mean If we treated part timers better than the quality would go up.

 

[El Correcto]

I mean If we treated part timers better than the quality would go up.

Being part time at UPS was wonderful for me and I made less than these dudes do now.
You just got to have a set of balls and bother to talk to the union stewards and learn how to play the game.

 

[El Correcto]

I was dead set on being a ups driver since I was in high school making fun of one’s short shorts when he delivered to my school. My teacher told me how much he makes wearing those short shorts around.

I wear pants everyday.

 

[Yolo]

Being part time at UPS was wonderful for me and I made less than these dudes do now.
You just got to have a set of balls and bother to talk to the union stewards and learn how to play the game.

When was that?

 

[Well-Known Member]

Yes because of the small wages and overwork, no one else wants the job.

I know a lot of part-timers who are here just for the medical. Their day job doesn't offer free medical. So they work here, getting free $1,600 a month medical insurance.

 

[Well-Known Member]

Uhhh. The part timers are fighting for higher wages. Do you live under a rock?

Uhhh, you need more than a handful of part-timers fighting for higher wages in order for their voice to be heard.

Part-timers have the numbers. If they voted, they could control the entire contract. But, they don't vote or care, with a few exceptions.

 

[Yolo]

Uhhh, you need more than a handful of part-timers fighting for higher wages in order for their voice to be heard.

Part-timers have the numbers. If they voted, they could control the entire contract. But, they don't vote or care, with a few exceptions.

Uhhh.. .They do vote.

 

[Yolo]

I know a lot of part-timers who are here just for the medical. Their day job doesn't offer free medical. So they work here, getting free $1,600 a month medical insurance.

It's not free. They break their backs for it.

 

[Yolo]

The sad reality is making minimum wage,having a criminal manager shaving your time card,working over 6 hours with a 10 minute break,having half the crew on a staggered start (without telling them) shaping up everyday especially new hires to save the billion dollar company a whopping 3.75!!Sending all the workers home having the supervisors do all the work because they don't want to pay us...15 dollars an hour in todays world does not equal the 9.50 that they were paying 20 years ago.

But come Christmas you're expected to quit your 2nd job and work 60 hours a week at UPS.

Hey since I'm being forced to work ft hours and then some can I be classified as ft? Nope fu

 

[Swanson]

Being part time at UPS was wonderful for me and I made less than these dudes do now.
You just got to have a set of balls and bother to talk to the union stewards and learn how to play the game.

My steward is catching bulk for the unit manager.I am going to write him up for working.That's the type of steward I have.I had to tell a guy I work with tonight who has been there for a year that the supervisors are not allowed to work,nobody I work with knows that we have a contract or rights as a union member.I blame the union for not putting for a better effort on educating their newer members.

 

[Swanson]

But come Christmas you're expected to quit your 2nd job and work 60 hours a week at UPS.

Hey since I'm being forced to work ft hours and then some can I be classified as ft? Nope fu

I dont do doubles I don't trust management at my center. I dont know if they would even pay me

 

[542thruNthru]

My steward is catching bulk for the unit manager.I am going to write him up for working.That's the type of steward I have.I had to tell a guy I work with tonight who has been there for a year that the supervisors are not allowed to work,nobody I work with knows that we have a contract or rights as a union member.I blame the union for not putting for a better effort on educating their newer members.

I highly doubt the majority of people you work with from LU 396 doesn't know they have a contract or rights.

 

[Swanson]

I highly doubt the majority of people you work with from LU 396 doesn't know they have a contract or rights.

The guys I work with don't, can't speak for the local or other hubs.But I will educate as many as possible,I will file on any violation of the contract that I see,someone has gotta stand up since the steward is in bed with management.

 

[542thruNthru]

The guys I work with don't, can't speak for the local or other hubs.But I will educate as many as possible,I will file on any violation of the contract that I see,someone has gotta stand up since the steward is in bed with management.

"In bed with management"

This saying seems to get thrown around a lot on this site.

Are you going to become a steward? Do they elect stewards in your local or appoint them?

 

[Swanson]

"In bed with management"

This saying seems to get thrown around a lot on this site.

Are you going to become a steward? Do they elect stewards in your local or appoint them?

I would do it I think they are elected my ba knows our stew is garbage

 

[Well-Known Member]

Uhhh.. .They do vote.

Not enough of them vote, because if they did, they'd be making more than $15 an hour.

 

[Well-Known Member]

It's not free. They break their backs for it.

It's free. Breaking their backs for it is being overly dramatic. It can be a physical job, depending on what you do.

 

[Swanson]

Not enough of them vote, because if they did, they'd be making more than $15 an hour.

How many part times do you think were around since the last contract?