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<blockquote data-quote="curiousbrain" data-source="post: 967850" data-attributes="member: 31608"><p><strong>Re: Loyalty is Laid to Rest; Grave is Next to Partnership’s; RIP My Old Friends</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's nothing "bad" about it, in an absolute sense. And, this is just my opinion, obviously, but ...</p><p></p><p>... as far as I can tell, "might makes right" in the world that we live in, and, as an extension, at UPS. What you and others think they deserve is irrelevant, in some sense - it is only what you can get; and, it works the other way - what UPS thinks, as an entity, it deserves, is irrelevant - it is only what it can get. In that sense, what "is right" is an ethereal target that never really materializes, except in brief moments of contract agreement; after that, for UPS it becomes what can we get away with, and for the union it becomes what can we enforce.</p><p></p><p>It is for smarter people than me to decide whether this is a good state of affairs or not, and if contract agreements should be concrete or fluid after the fact, but when faced with the overwhelming "dog eat dog" world of self interest that we all live in, I think this is the best we can hope for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curiousbrain, post: 967850, member: 31608"] [b]Re: Loyalty is Laid to Rest; Grave is Next to Partnership’s; RIP My Old Friends[/b] There's nothing "bad" about it, in an absolute sense. And, this is just my opinion, obviously, but ... ... as far as I can tell, "might makes right" in the world that we live in, and, as an extension, at UPS. What you and others think they deserve is irrelevant, in some sense - it is only what you can get; and, it works the other way - what UPS thinks, as an entity, it deserves, is irrelevant - it is only what it can get. In that sense, what "is right" is an ethereal target that never really materializes, except in brief moments of contract agreement; after that, for UPS it becomes what can we get away with, and for the union it becomes what can we enforce. It is for smarter people than me to decide whether this is a good state of affairs or not, and if contract agreements should be concrete or fluid after the fact, but when faced with the overwhelming "dog eat dog" world of self interest that we all live in, I think this is the best we can hope for. [/QUOTE]
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