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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 3156746" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>If the company is implementing this under the seasonal worker language in order to do this contractually, then they are NOT SCABS. They will be bargaining unit employees (albeit temporary ones) covered under the seasonal employee language of the bargaining agreement. Just like seasonal drivers and helpers for decades have been. And like those seasonal employees, many locals in Non-RTW states will automatically charge them an initiation fee and dues. You are going to call someone paying initiation and dues to your union for a 2 month job a scab? That's harsh.</p><p></p><p>There is likely a 17 hour dispatch waiting for a lot of folks peak day. Hard to lighten that load if the volume comes in to give that much work to every route in the center. Peak has gotten harder and harder to game. The company will look at the trends to estimate peak volume but it is not as easy as it looks. (I know, the bosses are just stupid and if you were running things it would be supper easy for you with a calculator and legal pad to figure out exactly how many stops would come in each day and how many routes you would need to get everyone home in 8 hours. I have no doubt.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>is that what he said? Are you sure he did not say "Because we have become the highest cost provider because of our far higher overall labor costs than our competitors, and because when our customers leave us for our competitors they overwhelmingly tell us they left because of costs, we are implementing technology and automation to try and stem the hemorrhaging that has seen our market share drop from 80% in the '90's to less than 24% today. Because no matter how large the package market grows, if our share reaches 0, that is how many American families we will be able to pay a living wage to."</p><p></p><p>You could be right. You may be better at paraphrasing than I. But sometimes there are more factors that influence events than we like to recognize.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It was never just about people. It has always been about both. Any corporation that has truly followed the fantasy land ideal of we care only about our people and not a whit about our bottom line has gone belly up and at that point stopped being any assistance to their people whatsoever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 3156746, member: 14596"] If the company is implementing this under the seasonal worker language in order to do this contractually, then they are NOT SCABS. They will be bargaining unit employees (albeit temporary ones) covered under the seasonal employee language of the bargaining agreement. Just like seasonal drivers and helpers for decades have been. And like those seasonal employees, many locals in Non-RTW states will automatically charge them an initiation fee and dues. You are going to call someone paying initiation and dues to your union for a 2 month job a scab? That's harsh. There is likely a 17 hour dispatch waiting for a lot of folks peak day. Hard to lighten that load if the volume comes in to give that much work to every route in the center. Peak has gotten harder and harder to game. The company will look at the trends to estimate peak volume but it is not as easy as it looks. (I know, the bosses are just stupid and if you were running things it would be supper easy for you with a calculator and legal pad to figure out exactly how many stops would come in each day and how many routes you would need to get everyone home in 8 hours. I have no doubt.) is that what he said? Are you sure he did not say "Because we have become the highest cost provider because of our far higher overall labor costs than our competitors, and because when our customers leave us for our competitors they overwhelmingly tell us they left because of costs, we are implementing technology and automation to try and stem the hemorrhaging that has seen our market share drop from 80% in the '90's to less than 24% today. Because no matter how large the package market grows, if our share reaches 0, that is how many American families we will be able to pay a living wage to." You could be right. You may be better at paraphrasing than I. But sometimes there are more factors that influence events than we like to recognize. It was never just about people. It has always been about both. Any corporation that has truly followed the fantasy land ideal of we care only about our people and not a whit about our bottom line has gone belly up and at that point stopped being any assistance to their people whatsoever. [/QUOTE]
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