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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 178619" data-attributes="member: 249">I know what your main complaint is concerning the teamsters, and I fully agree with you that its not right.&nbsp; What UPS puts into the teamster pension funds needs to go to UPSers.&nbsp; &nbsp;One of two things needs to occur to make that happen:&nbsp;1.&nbsp; UPSers need to unite and ignite change within the teamsters union.&nbsp; We comprise a large percentage of the teamsters union, and I am willing to bet we are an even greater percentage when it comes to active voting on teamster elections and initiatives.&nbsp; As long as people continue to have apathy for the teamsters way of doing things nothing will change.&nbsp; &nbsp;2.&nbsp; We need to look toward other pro-labor organizations to take over for the teamsters who have a proven track record of getting stuff done and issues addressed in a quick manner.&nbsp;Both choices require unification among UPSers, both fulltime and parttime.&nbsp; The only thing I can credit the APWA with is if they do succeed in swaying enough people to enact a vote by the NLRB they could get the attention of the teamsters.&nbsp; Which could in turn intiate the change required within our current union.&nbsp; I fully agree that we need our own pension fund separate from all the other companies the teamsters represent.&nbsp; Its already there for the part-timers, and it needs to be there for the full-timers as well.&nbsp; I just don&#039;t agree with giving up on the teamsters alltogether and going with some organization that just comes out of the blue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="brett636, post: 178619, member: 249"] I know what your main complaint is concerning the teamsters, and I fully agree with you that its not right. What UPS puts into the teamster pension funds needs to go to UPSers. One of two things needs to occur to make that happen: 1. UPSers need to unite and ignite change within the teamsters union. We comprise a large percentage of the teamsters union, and I am willing to bet we are an even greater percentage when it comes to active voting on teamster elections and initiatives. As long as people continue to have apathy for the teamsters way of doing things nothing will change. 2. We need to look toward other pro-labor organizations to take over for the teamsters who have a proven track record of getting stuff done and issues addressed in a quick manner. Both choices require unification among UPSers, both fulltime and parttime. The only thing I can credit the APWA with is if they do succeed in swaying enough people to enact a vote by the NLRB they could get the attention of the teamsters. Which could in turn intiate the change required within our current union. I fully agree that we need our own pension fund separate from all the other companies the teamsters represent. Its already there for the part-timers, and it needs to be there for the full-timers as well. I just don't agree with giving up on the teamsters alltogether and going with some organization that just comes out of the blue. [/QUOTE]

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