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The Hoffa era is over, and the Teamsters are ready to fight
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<blockquote data-quote="MostHelpNeeded" data-source="post: 5212534" data-attributes="member: 66806"><p>Your mentality is exactly why top rate hasn't kept up with inflation for the last 10+ years. Raises under 3% = stepping backwards.</p><p>Remember when we hit $30/hr and people with the same mentality were saying that was wayyy too much for a labor job? Yeah, the company was profiting 3 billion/year then. Record profits after record profits since then. UPS raises rates every year to cover inflation and the increased cost of doing business. They are NOT paying us more then they were 10 or 20 years ago, they are paying us less. I wish more people could understand this.</p><p></p><p>Some food for thought; You can go back and do the math yourself, but if we had kept up with inflation, and had the same buying power today as we had in say 2007, top rate would be right around $45/hr....before this years massive inflation hit. When you add in this year, we should be going into contract negotiations looking for $50/hr. </p><p></p><p>It's a big jump from $40 to $50 and I understand that. It's because we've been stepping backwards....and because of that, the $50 sounds like a pipe dream. If we would have addressed this year ago it would be different today, but we didn't, and here we are. </p><p>BEcause of this, we have to do away with $.70 this year, $.80 the next year, etc. With a good contract, raises would be a percentage....say 3% increase per year, or tied to inflation rates.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MostHelpNeeded, post: 5212534, member: 66806"] Your mentality is exactly why top rate hasn't kept up with inflation for the last 10+ years. Raises under 3% = stepping backwards. Remember when we hit $30/hr and people with the same mentality were saying that was wayyy too much for a labor job? Yeah, the company was profiting 3 billion/year then. Record profits after record profits since then. UPS raises rates every year to cover inflation and the increased cost of doing business. They are NOT paying us more then they were 10 or 20 years ago, they are paying us less. I wish more people could understand this. Some food for thought; You can go back and do the math yourself, but if we had kept up with inflation, and had the same buying power today as we had in say 2007, top rate would be right around $45/hr....before this years massive inflation hit. When you add in this year, we should be going into contract negotiations looking for $50/hr. It's a big jump from $40 to $50 and I understand that. It's because we've been stepping backwards....and because of that, the $50 sounds like a pipe dream. If we would have addressed this year ago it would be different today, but we didn't, and here we are. BEcause of this, we have to do away with $.70 this year, $.80 the next year, etc. With a good contract, raises would be a percentage....say 3% increase per year, or tied to inflation rates. [/QUOTE]
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