I dispute most of this.
I would argue, that for the skillset required, UPS is one of the very best jobs out there, period.
For part timers, no. But as a driver?
You get paid 100K a year, get best in class insurance, a pension that for most will be worth well over a million dollars, and huge job security as brick and mortar stores get displaced by the internet.
If you're crying that you have to work Christmas Eve, get over it. We get a lot of holidays. Christmas we don't get the day off before, because our business over peak is making sure that everyone else's Christmas isn't ruined.
I presume you are talking about the Air hub and gateway operations employees, when you are talking about the contract not applying?The contract has articles that govern those employees too. Article 46 in my contract for 710, if I recall correctly.
What articles of the contract do not apply during peak and during this pandemic?
The initiation fees do not go toward covering the retirees pensions or healthcare.
You absolutely can request a holiday week or day off. Just not after Thanksgiving. Again, our job requires all hands on deck during Christmas time.
I wish both of you the best, but you are being somewhat shortsighted.
Those "better jobs" will likely not have the pay rate, the insurance, or the pension that comes with this job.
Thanks for the well wishes, I wish the same for you.
Though I've worked for UPS for 10 years, my seniority in my area (not center) is low. Here we pick our vacations for the year in November. I won't see the bid sheet until February. Last year, by the time I got it, there were only 5 weeks of the year available. No chance of getting a week around ANY holiday- Easter, Memorial, 4th of July, Labor day. Also not much time to PLAN any kind of winter one. Summer weeks are gone.
We also only follow the part of the contract about seniority mattering when it comes to MORE hours. One can't grieve it if you are sent out of your area to work another, when they let people with less seniority leave earlier. I THOUGHT I could grieve it, was told I was correct. I wasn't. Misinformation... At least Christmas Eve I knew that, so when I was one of the last working, OUTSIDE of my area. I didn't get angry. Just is what it is.
I have requested a move to another area where I would have better seniority, smalls. I started unloading trucks, as I age I know I won't be able to do that for long. I was told they would, but they keep putting new hires in there.
As for short sighted... I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. I say this with RESPECT though.
With the seasonal helpers and PVD's I believe it is going to become more difficult for drivers to earn $100,000 a year. I worry about the automated package trucks of the future and drones. I also read about how retirees were told to expect healthcare and pensions that changed and are changing from WHEN they chose to retire. (central states).
This was a tough year, with covid, with the riots and the lockdowns. Being an essential worker... a HERO!!! Is highly over rated!
At least when the riots hit, the grocery store, big box stores closed down. They have some darn plexiglass, wear a mask inside, not working lifting darn packages non stop in the heat. They have sanitizer at their work station, not across the darn center. I have to kind of chuckle.... the belt they work on, they can slow down. Not the case in my area. Nor is there any 6 foot rule.
A long list.... which I'm done caring about. It's just not for everyone... Not for me anymore!
off during work hours. It’s the key to longevity at ups (in any department)
s and rejection ts who couldn't make it doing anything else so they've been there so long they think they have part ownership of the company. Its nuts, but I do appreciate the feed back. I most likely won't be here much longer. Once spring kicks up again I can start focusing on my hardscaping company the wife and I started.
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