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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1134873" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>For clarification, I'm not asserting that drivers are overpaid. I'm asserting that I think it's pathetic that in a union shop, the Teamsters have negotiated a contract in which FTers performing menial work will be among the top 5% of all wage earners in the USA ... while their PT counterparts will be starting at/near minimum wage. Since the new millennium, total compensation has begun decreasing despite soaring worker productivity & corporate profits (meanwhile, executive compensation is skyrocketing). This demonstrates the strength & necessity of a union in ensuring that workers are compensated fairly for the work they perform. </p><p></p><p>Nor am I asserting that PTers should earn per hour wages equivalent to FTers. I'm merely asserting that hall failed to negotiate a contract that is fair to PTers in a union shop - instead, he adjusted the starting wage to increasing minimum wages. Keeping starting/progressing wages low, keeping benefits at 12-months & keeping the guarantee at 3.5 incentives UPS to whore the PT sort out with de facto temporary, low-cost employees. So PTers seeking FT will need to work 10+ years in a low wage, low hour job that's FT physically & mentally fatiguing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1134873, member: 43436"] For clarification, I'm not asserting that drivers are overpaid. I'm asserting that I think it's pathetic that in a union shop, the Teamsters have negotiated a contract in which FTers performing menial work will be among the top 5% of all wage earners in the USA ... while their PT counterparts will be starting at/near minimum wage. Since the new millennium, total compensation has begun decreasing despite soaring worker productivity & corporate profits (meanwhile, executive compensation is skyrocketing). This demonstrates the strength & necessity of a union in ensuring that workers are compensated fairly for the work they perform. Nor am I asserting that PTers should earn per hour wages equivalent to FTers. I'm merely asserting that hall failed to negotiate a contract that is fair to PTers in a union shop - instead, he adjusted the starting wage to increasing minimum wages. Keeping starting/progressing wages low, keeping benefits at 12-months & keeping the guarantee at 3.5 incentives UPS to whore the PT sort out with de facto temporary, low-cost employees. So PTers seeking FT will need to work 10+ years in a low wage, low hour job that's FT physically & mentally fatiguing. [/QUOTE]
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