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<blockquote data-quote="JonFrum" data-source="post: 770305" data-attributes="member: 18044"><p>Normally a bargaining unit is composed of similarly situated workers with similar interests. Thus if UPS were being organized for the first time today, the part-timers would be a seperate bargaining unit, and vote seperately on their own contract, seperate from the full-timers. (There could also be seperate units of package car drivers, feeder drivers, mechanics, clerks, etc. Whatever the members want.)</p><p> </p><p>But the Teamsters have always insisted on everyone being in one bargaining unit. They don't even allow the various Supplemental areas to be seperate bargaining units. That keeps everyone powerless, especially the part-timers, since most part-timers are relatively new, young, low-seniority, inexperienced, and uninformed.</p><p> </p><p>Only a small percentage of all the part-timers who pass through UPS' revolving doors are even eligible to vote. Contract votes only happen every five or six years now instead of every three years as in days of old. Only those part-timers who happen to be on the payroll at voting time are able to vote. Many part-timers in Right-To-Work States are not even Teamster members and so are ineligible to vote. </p><p> </p><p>Teamster negotiators manipulate the length of the Contract, the composition of the bargaining unit, and the mixed-bag "offer" they present to the voting members. They then unanimously recomend a YES vote, leaving voters to believe that is the last, best, and final offer, and rejecting it will mean a strike.</p><p> </p><p>It's all about control, and insuring Labor Peace.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonFrum, post: 770305, member: 18044"] Normally a bargaining unit is composed of similarly situated workers with similar interests. Thus if UPS were being organized for the first time today, the part-timers would be a seperate bargaining unit, and vote seperately on their own contract, seperate from the full-timers. (There could also be seperate units of package car drivers, feeder drivers, mechanics, clerks, etc. Whatever the members want.) But the Teamsters have always insisted on everyone being in one bargaining unit. They don't even allow the various Supplemental areas to be seperate bargaining units. That keeps everyone powerless, especially the part-timers, since most part-timers are relatively new, young, low-seniority, inexperienced, and uninformed. Only a small percentage of all the part-timers who pass through UPS' revolving doors are even eligible to vote. Contract votes only happen every five or six years now instead of every three years as in days of old. Only those part-timers who happen to be on the payroll at voting time are able to vote. Many part-timers in Right-To-Work States are not even Teamster members and so are ineligible to vote. Teamster negotiators manipulate the length of the Contract, the composition of the bargaining unit, and the mixed-bag "offer" they present to the voting members. They then unanimously recomend a YES vote, leaving voters to believe that is the last, best, and final offer, and rejecting it will mean a strike. It's all about control, and insuring Labor Peace. [/QUOTE]
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