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<blockquote data-quote="JonFrum" data-source="post: 753725" data-attributes="member: 18044"><p>Just a note of caution:</p><p> </p><p>Many clauses in the Contract are less impressive when you actually read them closely. The penalty for a Supervisor working is ridiculously weak, despite everyone focusing on the double-time penalty.</p><p> </p><p>If a Supervisor works less than two hours, the penalty is twice the hourly worker's pay for the actual time worked. So if the hourly worker makes, say, $12.00 an hour, he makes twenty cents a minute. Double that and you have a penalty check in the amount of forty cents if the Supervisor helped with lifting one overweight package for one minute.</p><p> </p><p>Even if the Supervisor worked for a more extended period, the financial penalty to UPS is trivial. And the pay to the grievant is as well.</p><p> </p><p>By all means file ON PRINCIPLE. But don't expect there to be any financial incentive. The </p><p>negotiators have seen to that.</p><p>- - -</p><p>I wonder if younger employees realize that once the maximum weight of a package was 70 pounds.</p><p> </p><p>And before that, the maximum weight was 50 pounds.</p><p> </p><p>Now we are expected to lift a 150 pound package with another person, which means a 75 pound maximum per person (not 70), <u>plus</u> the added weight as the package tilts from one person to another.</p><p> </p><p>Management often says, "You knew what the job entailed when you signed on." But in this case, no we didn't. Management has changed the rules during the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonFrum, post: 753725, member: 18044"] Just a note of caution: Many clauses in the Contract are less impressive when you actually read them closely. The penalty for a Supervisor working is ridiculously weak, despite everyone focusing on the double-time penalty. If a Supervisor works less than two hours, the penalty is twice the hourly worker's pay for the actual time worked. So if the hourly worker makes, say, $12.00 an hour, he makes twenty cents a minute. Double that and you have a penalty check in the amount of forty cents if the Supervisor helped with lifting one overweight package for one minute. Even if the Supervisor worked for a more extended period, the financial penalty to UPS is trivial. And the pay to the grievant is as well. By all means file ON PRINCIPLE. But don't expect there to be any financial incentive. The negotiators have seen to that. - - - I wonder if younger employees realize that once the maximum weight of a package was 70 pounds. And before that, the maximum weight was 50 pounds. Now we are expected to lift a 150 pound package with another person, which means a 75 pound maximum per person (not 70), [U]plus[/U] the added weight as the package tilts from one person to another. Management often says, "You knew what the job entailed when you signed on." But in this case, no we didn't. Management has changed the rules during the game. [/QUOTE]
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