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<blockquote data-quote="Unregistered" data-source="post: 72669"><p>At another site a person wrote that the IPA walked with the teamsters in 1997 because they couldn't fly. The aircraft dispatchers and mechanics were teamsters on strike. UPS was focusing on getting the packages out of the system and not putting them in in 1997. There was nothing to fly. Asia wasn't that big. I think UPS was using Challenge in Miami then for flights to Latin America. The IPA used the teamsters to get their 1998 deal that was signed just months after the 97 strike. They claimed solidarity but in looking back they had really no way or nothing too fly. This is a different puppy. The drivers grew the business after the strike. We were able to bounce back after 1997 in no time. What can the pilots do to grow the business? Does Amazon. com or JC Penny or Sears catalog have a airstrip to were the pilot can get out of their plane and thank them for using UPS? It will be up to the teamsters to work harder if the IPA strikes to recover lost business.</p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p>We didn't fly because we wouldn't. The management pilots flew right up to the point of legally timing out. They would have loved us to fly. The dispatchers were not even organized then, and are not Teamsters now. The mechanics are Teamsters, and they too stayed out, but UPS have management mechanics who too, can work on and sign off aircraft.</p><p></p><p>People characterize us as arrogant. Frankly, I don't think that is generally true. We are for the most part, well educated, motivated, and proactive in our daily lives. We generally are not very good with "over" supervision that UPS thrives on. </p><p></p><p>Frankly, the only place this company is not lean and mean at is management. We are way too top heavy. Too many cooks. I think the company should find the pilots contract money there, getting rid of dead wood.</p><p></p><p>BrownBusDriver</p><p></p><p>BrownBusDriver</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Unregistered, post: 72669"] At another site a person wrote that the IPA walked with the teamsters in 1997 because they couldn't fly. The aircraft dispatchers and mechanics were teamsters on strike. UPS was focusing on getting the packages out of the system and not putting them in in 1997. There was nothing to fly. Asia wasn't that big. I think UPS was using Challenge in Miami then for flights to Latin America. The IPA used the teamsters to get their 1998 deal that was signed just months after the 97 strike. They claimed solidarity but in looking back they had really no way or nothing too fly. This is a different puppy. The drivers grew the business after the strike. We were able to bounce back after 1997 in no time. What can the pilots do to grow the business? Does Amazon. com or JC Penny or Sears catalog have a airstrip to were the pilot can get out of their plane and thank them for using UPS? It will be up to the teamsters to work harder if the IPA strikes to recover lost business.[/QUOTE] We didn't fly because we wouldn't. The management pilots flew right up to the point of legally timing out. They would have loved us to fly. The dispatchers were not even organized then, and are not Teamsters now. The mechanics are Teamsters, and they too stayed out, but UPS have management mechanics who too, can work on and sign off aircraft. People characterize us as arrogant. Frankly, I don't think that is generally true. We are for the most part, well educated, motivated, and proactive in our daily lives. We generally are not very good with "over" supervision that UPS thrives on. Frankly, the only place this company is not lean and mean at is management. We are way too top heavy. Too many cooks. I think the company should find the pilots contract money there, getting rid of dead wood. BrownBusDriver BrownBusDriver [/QUOTE]
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