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<blockquote data-quote="ok2bclever" data-source="post: 54913"><p>Yep,</p><p></p><p>A major part of understanding why UPS invited the Teamsters in, and they did, was the prevailing business environment of the times where worker abuse was the norm.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't a grass roots movement by the workers, but rather a farsighted, calculated decision by Jim Casey.</p><p></p><p>It brought the stability of the family man to the workforce and the company prospered accordingly <strong>because of</strong>, rather than in <em>in spite of</em> the unionized workforce.</p><p></p><p>Times have morphed and government (oops,sorry, bad word wkmac) rules, most of which originated from organized labor lobbying,ironically have lessened the need for unions, especially in the minds of the inexperienced younger workers.</p><p></p><p>This environment has allowed far seeing companies to avoid the necessity of unions with progressive employee relation's policies in such areas as how they treat the workers as respected, valued individuals, rather than gears in a machine and other beneficial areas such as personal time, childcare, etc.</p><p></p><p>UPS is NOT one of those companies and by the nature of the high paced, high pressure, physical labor intensive delivery industry I don't see anyway it ever will be and hence the need of some sort of governor to the push, push harder nature of the job.</p><p></p><p>That the company has now gained more tangible financial leverage on the big boys of the union can only be seen as a desireable tool by UPS. </p><p></p><p>It's not as clear how the worker will fair with the developing company/union relationship, only time will tell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ok2bclever, post: 54913"] Yep, A major part of understanding why UPS invited the Teamsters in, and they did, was the prevailing business environment of the times where worker abuse was the norm. It wasn't a grass roots movement by the workers, but rather a farsighted, calculated decision by Jim Casey. It brought the stability of the family man to the workforce and the company prospered accordingly [B]because of[/B], rather than in [I]in spite of[/I] the unionized workforce. Times have morphed and government (oops,sorry, bad word wkmac) rules, most of which originated from organized labor lobbying,ironically have lessened the need for unions, especially in the minds of the inexperienced younger workers. This environment has allowed far seeing companies to avoid the necessity of unions with progressive employee relation's policies in such areas as how they treat the workers as respected, valued individuals, rather than gears in a machine and other beneficial areas such as personal time, childcare, etc. UPS is NOT one of those companies and by the nature of the high paced, high pressure, physical labor intensive delivery industry I don't see anyway it ever will be and hence the need of some sort of governor to the push, push harder nature of the job. That the company has now gained more tangible financial leverage on the big boys of the union can only be seen as a desireable tool by UPS. It's not as clear how the worker will fair with the developing company/union relationship, only time will tell. [/QUOTE]
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