Any part timer not red circled knows the screwing we’ve had for past 20+ years, with wage gap between full and part time widening. With the new bump in wage for someone not ever working a day at UPS and not for existing part timers, it’s time for a part time wave of vote no. Let them hear you loud and clear. If the contract passes with no catch up raises, it’s time for a leave the union campaign for those in right to work states. Historic tax cuts and profits and no catch up raise should be automatic no vote for existing part timers. Our COLA raise has been a joke with huge inflation the past 10 years and what do we have to show for it? Drivers are crying about 2 tier and we have had many tiers for a long time. Make the union earn your vote and dues!
I agree that the part-timers really need to step up and strike this contract down until we get a catch-up raise. Hell, we should get one from when it was last raised too without a catch-up. It's still not the end-all, be-all as far as what should garner a "yes" or a "no" vote, though.
I'm going to tell the part-timers at my hub to vote "no" if there is no catch-up raise, but also tell them what else is wrong with the contract (once we actually know more about it, anyways). If the initial proposal is struck down and another one comes through with catch-up raises but lacking a lot of other things, the vote still needs to be "no".
Although I don't agree with the idea that part-timers should leave the union in RTW states if they don't get a catch-up raise, the informed ones might actually start doing just that...and that would really be a shame, because it's becoming increasingly difficult to fault those that do so for it.
