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<blockquote data-quote="705red" data-source="post: 329123" data-attributes="member: 5229"><p>Sure the pension was a concern in 97. Just take a look at local 804 and 177 for instance they both are single employer pension funds and 804 had taken some pretty big cuts over the last 3 years.</p><p> </p><p>Lets not forget that ups were using their ptime work force to run the business and basically replace ftime jobs at ptime wages saving them money. Now look at how many more tens of thousand of ftime jobs that were created from this strike. In chicago back in the middle 90s it was a 7 to 8 year wait to go fulltime afer the strike i went with 5 years of ptime.</p><p> </p><p>If im correct the ftime driving wage was roughly $18 an hour and now 11 years later we are at $28 and change per hour. Yes we lost some customers as would happen with a strike in any unionized field. But if you compare ups's yearly profits reports from the early 90s through today ups has also benefited to the tune of 4 bilion plus a year over the last several years.</p><p> </p><p>I am a ups teamster and i honestly hope that we never see a strike again, but the union is not the only one that has any control in this. The company has just as much say in it. If we both work accordingly with the contract language and continue to bargain in good faith hopefully a strike will never happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="705red, post: 329123, member: 5229"] Sure the pension was a concern in 97. Just take a look at local 804 and 177 for instance they both are single employer pension funds and 804 had taken some pretty big cuts over the last 3 years. Lets not forget that ups were using their ptime work force to run the business and basically replace ftime jobs at ptime wages saving them money. Now look at how many more tens of thousand of ftime jobs that were created from this strike. In chicago back in the middle 90s it was a 7 to 8 year wait to go fulltime afer the strike i went with 5 years of ptime. If im correct the ftime driving wage was roughly $18 an hour and now 11 years later we are at $28 and change per hour. Yes we lost some customers as would happen with a strike in any unionized field. But if you compare ups's yearly profits reports from the early 90s through today ups has also benefited to the tune of 4 bilion plus a year over the last several years. I am a ups teamster and i honestly hope that we never see a strike again, but the union is not the only one that has any control in this. The company has just as much say in it. If we both work accordingly with the contract language and continue to bargain in good faith hopefully a strike will never happen. [/QUOTE]
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