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<blockquote data-quote="Mike23" data-source="post: 547690"><p>What? We only make $24.45 an hour in Calgary and we have the second highest living expense in Canada! I think the new contract will be a little more beneficial for us though since our main union guy is actually useful. I went through a rough time after my brother in laws suicide and he was more then willing to help me out, unfortunately UPS had other ideas (gee, if that doesn't give away who I am to our depot, I dunno what would). Our stewards are pretty useless although you can't really blame them since they don't really have much power and so therefore don't give advice, don't back you up and generally don't give a damn. I think they're just worried of helping anyone out who isn't their best bud though. The Teamsters do represent us up here in the pitiful north and as stated our main union guy is awesome the rest leave much to be desired. I recall when I first started our main union guy came in (within the first 2 months) and said if we had any issues to call him directly.</p><p></p><p>DS, 99% of the UPS ppl in Calgary realize it's not the norm to get $100 bonus a week to just not quit. It was pitiful how much we had to fight to get that. That's what I mean that our sups do give a damn because they were the ones that fought for that bonus for our new guys (haha, 1 year and I call ppl new guys). I don't think anyone knows how bad it was up in Alberta unless they actually came for a 'visit'. As I stated before, we are a different type of animal in Alberta and UPS (upper echlone in the states) just doesn't know how to handle it and ****s all over our sups. I've heard rumors that people in other provinces work 8.5 hours a day and that INCLUDES their lunch. I'm generally under by 1 hour and am still out for 9 hours with a 1 hour break not included. I'm lucky if I get 30min break in my day. I dunno if that's because I was just poorly trained and picked up many bad habits (such as scanning in the pkg car) or just stink but I think 120 stops by 1830 with 69 kilometers isn't too bad...or at least I hope so since the numbers say I'm ok. Anyways, back on track for a moment...our sups actually work from 7am - (closing sup) 2000. I don't know any other province like that. I also know, last week we had one sup work from 0600-2100. How rediculious is that?!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike23, post: 547690"] What? We only make $24.45 an hour in Calgary and we have the second highest living expense in Canada! I think the new contract will be a little more beneficial for us though since our main union guy is actually useful. I went through a rough time after my brother in laws suicide and he was more then willing to help me out, unfortunately UPS had other ideas (gee, if that doesn't give away who I am to our depot, I dunno what would). Our stewards are pretty useless although you can't really blame them since they don't really have much power and so therefore don't give advice, don't back you up and generally don't give a damn. I think they're just worried of helping anyone out who isn't their best bud though. The Teamsters do represent us up here in the pitiful north and as stated our main union guy is awesome the rest leave much to be desired. I recall when I first started our main union guy came in (within the first 2 months) and said if we had any issues to call him directly. DS, 99% of the UPS ppl in Calgary realize it's not the norm to get $100 bonus a week to just not quit. It was pitiful how much we had to fight to get that. That's what I mean that our sups do give a damn because they were the ones that fought for that bonus for our new guys (haha, 1 year and I call ppl new guys). I don't think anyone knows how bad it was up in Alberta unless they actually came for a 'visit'. As I stated before, we are a different type of animal in Alberta and UPS (upper echlone in the states) just doesn't know how to handle it and ****s all over our sups. I've heard rumors that people in other provinces work 8.5 hours a day and that INCLUDES their lunch. I'm generally under by 1 hour and am still out for 9 hours with a 1 hour break not included. I'm lucky if I get 30min break in my day. I dunno if that's because I was just poorly trained and picked up many bad habits (such as scanning in the pkg car) or just stink but I think 120 stops by 1830 with 69 kilometers isn't too bad...or at least I hope so since the numbers say I'm ok. Anyways, back on track for a moment...our sups actually work from 7am - (closing sup) 2000. I don't know any other province like that. I also know, last week we had one sup work from 0600-2100. How rediculious is that?! [/QUOTE]
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