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<blockquote data-quote="mike42" data-source="post: 252634"><p>There is no way that you should vote for this agreement. Your wage increases each year are less than stated. They would actually be .52, .56, .56, .63, and .71. Since they are splitting your raises in two, take they average and that is what your yearly raises will actually be. Why is the union giving in to UPS. Over the last 2 years UPS made over $8 BILLION in profit. Compare our wage increases to the deal that the UAW got its members. We will earn approximately $8500 over the 5 year deal, yet the GM workers will get around $13000. And GM lost almost $13 BILLION over the last 2 years. The other problem that I see is that if pension and health care costs go up, which we know that they will, the way I read the contract proposal is that the company can take up to .35 cents an hour of your pay and move it to the pension or health care costs. Why should we pay that increase when UPS continues to make record profits. Before you vote on this contract read it carefully and educate yourself. Don't take the union or managements word that it is a good contract. Remember, a union trustee voted with UPS to put New York & New Jersey under a joint UPS/Teamster pension plan and reduced their benfits by 30% and then put a cap on them. So it would be suprising that our union negotiators switched sides and sold us out to the Dark Side.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mike42, post: 252634"] There is no way that you should vote for this agreement. Your wage increases each year are less than stated. They would actually be .52, .56, .56, .63, and .71. Since they are splitting your raises in two, take they average and that is what your yearly raises will actually be. Why is the union giving in to UPS. Over the last 2 years UPS made over $8 BILLION in profit. Compare our wage increases to the deal that the UAW got its members. We will earn approximately $8500 over the 5 year deal, yet the GM workers will get around $13000. And GM lost almost $13 BILLION over the last 2 years. The other problem that I see is that if pension and health care costs go up, which we know that they will, the way I read the contract proposal is that the company can take up to .35 cents an hour of your pay and move it to the pension or health care costs. Why should we pay that increase when UPS continues to make record profits. Before you vote on this contract read it carefully and educate yourself. Don't take the union or managements word that it is a good contract. Remember, a union trustee voted with UPS to put New York & New Jersey under a joint UPS/Teamster pension plan and reduced their benfits by 30% and then put a cap on them. So it would be suprising that our union negotiators switched sides and sold us out to the Dark Side. [/QUOTE]
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