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The UPS Strike, 20 Years Later
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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 3263913" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>I've heard this many times over the years - never made any sense. I know in the building I was in we never sent out empties, would have been entirely pointless - like somehow seeing a UPS PC driving around would make people think they had actually gotten the package that they knew they hadn't.</p><p>If any buildings sent out empties it was likely as a decoy to try and draw off the goons some locals sent out to harass and intimidate the few delivering PCs that did go out.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There was a feeder safety manager driving a feeder during the strike who was killed in a crash on a freeway off ramp. I remember speculation that a Union member had run him off the road. Guess now we know.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hence the need for the aforementioned decoys</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>12 hours? Must have been the part timers. I remember working 14+hours over night and coming home where my roommate (a driver) would be lounging on a float in my pool and would raise his beer in salute and greet me with "how's it going scab!?"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So you're saying during the strike you went to work for non Union competitors making non Union wages under non Union conditions? You realize that's one of the definitions of a scab, right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 3263913, member: 14596"] I've heard this many times over the years - never made any sense. I know in the building I was in we never sent out empties, would have been entirely pointless - like somehow seeing a UPS PC driving around would make people think they had actually gotten the package that they knew they hadn't. If any buildings sent out empties it was likely as a decoy to try and draw off the goons some locals sent out to harass and intimidate the few delivering PCs that did go out. There was a feeder safety manager driving a feeder during the strike who was killed in a crash on a freeway off ramp. I remember speculation that a Union member had run him off the road. Guess now we know. Hence the need for the aforementioned decoys 12 hours? Must have been the part timers. I remember working 14+hours over night and coming home where my roommate (a driver) would be lounging on a float in my pool and would raise his beer in salute and greet me with "how's it going scab!?" So you're saying during the strike you went to work for non Union competitors making non Union wages under non Union conditions? You realize that's one of the definitions of a scab, right? [/QUOTE]
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