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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1076907" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>Your rate of pay will be affected based upon your date of employment. Once you achieve seniority, you follow the wage increase schedule of the new contract once it takes effect. Thus, those who hire shortly before a new contract is signed bank much stronger wages after 10 years than those who began their careers shortly after a new contract was signed.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, I was comparing Walmart employees to Whole Foods & Costco employees: because the latter paid premium wages, they hold leverage in selecting the best employees compared to the former. (And if you want to be nit-picky, I'm writing this as a generalization. No question Walmart employees some excellent "talent," especially in many rural southern regions where there's simply no competition.) If UPS were to increase its starting PT wage, it too would hold leverage in attracting & choosing top "talent." There are plenty of PTers who do the bare minimum to get by... with higher wages, UPS would have the luxury of imposing high starting standards (PPH for unloaders, loaders, bags per minute for small sort, etc.) that many current PTers wouldn't have been able, and still may be unable, to achieve. </p><p></p><p>I doubt you'll find many companies that don't impose pressure for some type of production standard (which will vary), and don't retort to yelling and threatening. But I'll tell you this: in the 10+ years I've been here, <strong>not a single part-timer I've worked with has EVER lost his/her job for misloads. </strong>They've received warnings, served suspensions, been pulled from service... but ultimately, they've been returned to work in some sort of other capacity (moved to unload, small sort, etc.) That would clearly change if UPS was in position of paying its PTers premium wages.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In early 2009, Walmart had numerous billboards throughout the Reno/Sparks region advertising immediate openings paying $17/hour + company paid benefits for its distribution operation -- so I suspect these are a completely different animal from the rest of the company.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1076907, member: 43436"] Your rate of pay will be affected based upon your date of employment. Once you achieve seniority, you follow the wage increase schedule of the new contract once it takes effect. Thus, those who hire shortly before a new contract is signed bank much stronger wages after 10 years than those who began their careers shortly after a new contract was signed. Secondly, I was comparing Walmart employees to Whole Foods & Costco employees: because the latter paid premium wages, they hold leverage in selecting the best employees compared to the former. (And if you want to be nit-picky, I'm writing this as a generalization. No question Walmart employees some excellent "talent," especially in many rural southern regions where there's simply no competition.) If UPS were to increase its starting PT wage, it too would hold leverage in attracting & choosing top "talent." There are plenty of PTers who do the bare minimum to get by... with higher wages, UPS would have the luxury of imposing high starting standards (PPH for unloaders, loaders, bags per minute for small sort, etc.) that many current PTers wouldn't have been able, and still may be unable, to achieve. I doubt you'll find many companies that don't impose pressure for some type of production standard (which will vary), and don't retort to yelling and threatening. But I'll tell you this: in the 10+ years I've been here, [B]not a single part-timer I've worked with has EVER lost his/her job for misloads. [/B]They've received warnings, served suspensions, been pulled from service... but ultimately, they've been returned to work in some sort of other capacity (moved to unload, small sort, etc.) That would clearly change if UPS was in position of paying its PTers premium wages. In early 2009, Walmart had numerous billboards throughout the Reno/Sparks region advertising immediate openings paying $17/hour + company paid benefits for its distribution operation -- so I suspect these are a completely different animal from the rest of the company. [/QUOTE]
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