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<blockquote data-quote="JonFrum" data-source="post: 770418" data-attributes="member: 18044"><p>Whatever the behind-closed-doors negotiating process, <u>both</u> <u>sides</u> sign-off on the offer that is put to the members for a vote, so both sides are to blame. In fact, both sides always recomend the Proposal enthusiastically, and call it the "last, best, and final offer." They both endorse the new concessions, and also endorse the many old concessions that are carried forth into the new contract.</p><p> </p><p>The Carnage of '82 should never have been alowed to happen to part-time wage rates. But it did, and has been perpetuated and grown worse ever since as the starting wage has not been raised, and inflation has taken its toll.</p><p>- - - -</p><p>Wages are minimums in part so that UPS can not cut them during the Contract. If they wern't minimums, UPS could pay feeder drivers less when hauling empty trailers, or no trailer at all; pay package car drivers less if they failed to deliver all the packages and had send agains; pay everyone less while idle during unavoidable delays, etc.</p><p> </p><p>It works like the COLA clause . . .</p><p>ARTICLE 33. COST-OF-LIVING (COLA)</p><p>All cost-of-living allowances paid under this Agreement will become and remain a fixed part of the base wage rate for all job classifications. <strong>A decline in the [Cost-of-Living] Index shall not result in the reduction of classification base wage rates.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonFrum, post: 770418, member: 18044"] Whatever the behind-closed-doors negotiating process, [U]both[/U] [U]sides[/U] sign-off on the offer that is put to the members for a vote, so both sides are to blame. In fact, both sides always recomend the Proposal enthusiastically, and call it the "last, best, and final offer." They both endorse the new concessions, and also endorse the many old concessions that are carried forth into the new contract. The Carnage of '82 should never have been alowed to happen to part-time wage rates. But it did, and has been perpetuated and grown worse ever since as the starting wage has not been raised, and inflation has taken its toll. - - - - Wages are minimums in part so that UPS can not cut them during the Contract. If they wern't minimums, UPS could pay feeder drivers less when hauling empty trailers, or no trailer at all; pay package car drivers less if they failed to deliver all the packages and had send agains; pay everyone less while idle during unavoidable delays, etc. It works like the COLA clause . . . ARTICLE 33. COST-OF-LIVING (COLA) All cost-of-living allowances paid under this Agreement will become and remain a fixed part of the base wage rate for all job classifications. [B]A decline in the [Cost-of-Living] Index shall not result in the reduction of classification base wage rates.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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