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The UPS Strike, 20 Years Later
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<blockquote data-quote="35years" data-source="post: 3275946" data-attributes="member: 60822"><p>Typical management "calling BS" on a driver while knowing absolutely nothing about the situation. I could have easily gone 5 years working at another Teamster trucking firm. We were getting 8-9 hours driving and offered 3-4 hours of additional overtime inside moving the freight. It was about $5 less per hour.</p><p></p><p>The Teamsters Union themselves arranged the jobs at other Teamster shops...Yellow, Roadway, CF etc. etc. They all came to the locals asking for UPS drivers to work for the duration of our strike. They were not "looking the other way". They arranged the jobs. Any driver that wanted to work had a job waiting for him for the duration. We were filling the need, the stuff was going to move, just not by UPS. We were not "taking away Teamster jobs". We are Teamsters. The jobs were offered for the duration of the strike, no longer. </p><p></p><p>As to your assertion that the strike would have been broken in one more week..pure fantasy on your part. Typical of the arrogant attitude of UPS at the time, they thought we would never strike. There was great solidarity and virtually no one crossed (historians site 99% non-defection).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="35years, post: 3275946, member: 60822"] Typical management "calling BS" on a driver while knowing absolutely nothing about the situation. I could have easily gone 5 years working at another Teamster trucking firm. We were getting 8-9 hours driving and offered 3-4 hours of additional overtime inside moving the freight. It was about $5 less per hour. The Teamsters Union themselves arranged the jobs at other Teamster shops...Yellow, Roadway, CF etc. etc. They all came to the locals asking for UPS drivers to work for the duration of our strike. They were not "looking the other way". They arranged the jobs. Any driver that wanted to work had a job waiting for him for the duration. We were filling the need, the stuff was going to move, just not by UPS. We were not "taking away Teamster jobs". We are Teamsters. The jobs were offered for the duration of the strike, no longer. As to your assertion that the strike would have been broken in one more week..pure fantasy on your part. Typical of the arrogant attitude of UPS at the time, they thought we would never strike. There was great solidarity and virtually no one crossed (historians site 99% non-defection). [/QUOTE]
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