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<blockquote data-quote="DELACROIX" data-source="post: 5620012" data-attributes="member: 49065"><p>The law of the jungle is to go (Full Time) as soon as possible. Both the Union and the Company are in agreement that they do not want career part timers and never have. The concept of promotion is to improve your working conditions and improve your pay scales, most of the today's career part timers (Over 20 years) are at the bottom of the Union's priorities today, just study the last 5 contracts.</p><p></p><p>When I first started part time my hourly wage was close to a driver's, there was no such thing as a (progression)..we paid the same Union dues as a full timer and basically had the same rights. Most everybody who was a part timer back in the 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000 were attending college, the plan was to provide a good wage and work schedule to get them a degree and have them quit to start their majors. The Company and the Union saw that most of us were staying, the reason was that we would be making the same as a part timer working for UPS then if we started an entry position in our selected majors. That was when the two tier system was placed into our Contracts in the early 80's, the Union wanted us to go full time because for the most part they would be getting addition monetary contributions into their controlled pension and health and welfare plans (97 strike). The Company's plan was to make the job so miserable and physically demanding that most of the part timers would quit after 4 years, before they became vested into a pension or got older and settled down with a family additional (health and welfare costs). </p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Improved Wages are a given</strong> with this Contract, particularly with the starting pay grades...Correct me if I am wrong but a starting (full time) 22.4 position starts out at 21 buck an hour according to the 2018 Contract. Granted it was negotiated before the pandemic and it's affect on our volume and (profits)...just look how the Company's stock has almost doubled, providing for the most part our management people a comfortable future and retirement. </p><p></p><p>To simplify: there are three monetary considerations that the Company and the Union have to deal with, the first one is <strong>GWI's, </strong></p><p>the second one is <strong>Health and Welfare Contributions increased. <span style="color: #b8312f">Those are a given, generally hourly increases of 1.00 each. </span><strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">The third is </span></strong><span style="color: #b8312f">(PENSIONS) again a 1.00 increase with a 40 hour work schedule....</span><span style="color: #000000">That will be the big battle with this Contract, <strong>it is the only way that the Company can add to their profits. If they can </strong></span></strong><span style="color: #000000"><strong>reduce their monetary contributions going into the Union's (multi-employee pension plans), they would consider that a major victory..they already have control over their own (defined benefit plans) (the IBT/UPS and the UPS Pension Plan for part timers).</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><strong>The very timing of them eliminating further vesting into their own retirement plans during a Contract year and then switching to a matched 401K is a clear indication they are trying to work out a deal with our pension contributions...After all they cannot ask for pension concessions from the Union if they continue to stuff money into their own pension trusts.</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DELACROIX, post: 5620012, member: 49065"] The law of the jungle is to go (Full Time) as soon as possible. Both the Union and the Company are in agreement that they do not want career part timers and never have. The concept of promotion is to improve your working conditions and improve your pay scales, most of the today's career part timers (Over 20 years) are at the bottom of the Union's priorities today, just study the last 5 contracts. When I first started part time my hourly wage was close to a driver's, there was no such thing as a (progression)..we paid the same Union dues as a full timer and basically had the same rights. Most everybody who was a part timer back in the 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000 were attending college, the plan was to provide a good wage and work schedule to get them a degree and have them quit to start their majors. The Company and the Union saw that most of us were staying, the reason was that we would be making the same as a part timer working for UPS then if we started an entry position in our selected majors. That was when the two tier system was placed into our Contracts in the early 80's, the Union wanted us to go full time because for the most part they would be getting addition monetary contributions into their controlled pension and health and welfare plans (97 strike). The Company's plan was to make the job so miserable and physically demanding that most of the part timers would quit after 4 years, before they became vested into a pension or got older and settled down with a family additional (health and welfare costs). [B] Improved Wages are a given[/B] with this Contract, particularly with the starting pay grades...Correct me if I am wrong but a starting (full time) 22.4 position starts out at 21 buck an hour according to the 2018 Contract. Granted it was negotiated before the pandemic and it's affect on our volume and (profits)...just look how the Company's stock has almost doubled, providing for the most part our management people a comfortable future and retirement. To simplify: there are three monetary considerations that the Company and the Union have to deal with, the first one is [B]GWI's, [/B] the second one is [B]Health and Welfare Contributions increased. [COLOR=#b8312f]Those are a given, generally hourly increases of 1.00 each. [/COLOR][B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]The third is [/COLOR][/B][COLOR=#b8312f](PENSIONS) again a 1.00 increase with a 40 hour work schedule....[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]That will be the big battle with this Contract, [B]it is the only way that the Company can add to their profits. If they can [/B][/COLOR][/B][COLOR=#000000][B]reduce their monetary contributions going into the Union's (multi-employee pension plans), they would consider that a major victory..they already have control over their own (defined benefit plans) (the IBT/UPS and the UPS Pension Plan for part timers). The very timing of them eliminating further vesting into their own retirement plans during a Contract year and then switching to a matched 401K is a clear indication they are trying to work out a deal with our pension contributions...After all they cannot ask for pension concessions from the Union if they continue to stuff money into their own pension trusts.[/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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