MECH-lift
Union Brother ✊🧔 RPCD
all the drivers in same loop should get together once a year and redesign routes according to area growth..instead they hire some guy who’s never even lived in the same state.
The Value of a Good Shop Steward
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542thruNthru
Well-Known Member
That's the extent of their management duties now.
EverybodyLovesMike
No, my name isnt mike
My steward is the definition of a mgmt sellout. I wish I was being malicious but sadly...
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Why doesn’t someone run against him?
jimdandy3
Impeach Hunter Biden
The best thing a driver can do is manage themselves. Show up every day. No late air. No accidents. No customer concerns.
Be like a ghost. If every driver did that I wonder how different it would be then.
Integrity
Binge Poster
Is your Steward appointed or voted in?
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
I would love nothing more than when I retire, someone says, "Just a UPS Guy is retiring, today is his last day." And the puzzled managers ask, "Who?"
542thruNthru
Well-Known Member
So you want it to be like here is what you're saying.
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
for 12 more years.
Netsua 3:16
AND THAT’S THE BOTTOM LINE
I’m ready to be a stew. Been talking about it openly and it’s gaining momentum around my building.
Our current guy is FINE and all but he’s been described as a “paper stew,” he’s not there to fight mgmt he’s there simply to process.
I know it’s a big job but I think I’m built for it. Right is right, wrong is wrong, and somebodies gotta be the moral compass between UPS and my brothers. Also, I don’t mind a little passive aggressive confrontation whatsoever. Makes life more exciting
We’ll see! Someday soon I’m going for it
Our current guy is FINE and all but he’s been described as a “paper stew,” he’s not there to fight mgmt he’s there simply to process.
I know it’s a big job but I think I’m built for it. Right is right, wrong is wrong, and somebodies gotta be the moral compass between UPS and my brothers. Also, I don’t mind a little passive aggressive confrontation whatsoever. Makes life more exciting
We’ll see! Someday soon I’m going for it
I have been lurking
Tired hubrat
You're gonna get Pajeet'd
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Do you have alternates or several stewards at once?
Netsua 3:16
AND THAT’S THE BOTTOM LINE
Nope, we have a FT stew that handles drivers and the 3 22.3’s we have and a PT stew that handles everybody else.
We usually put out 60ish routes on average but go as low as 40 and as high as 90. Our volume fluctuates like crazy. Were too small to be big but too big to be small
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
How long til current stew retires? We use alternates here so that when there is a transition the new stew already had their feet wet. Most of the time....
UPSER1987
Well-Known Member
Most drivers are too busy worrying and gossiping about other drivers for that to ever happen.
UPSER1987
Well-Known Member
...and guarantee all the apartments and late pickups will be left over and never dispatched lolall the drivers in same loop should get together once a year and redesign routes according to area growth..instead they hire some guy who’s never even lived in the same state.
MECH-lift
Union Brother ✊🧔 RPCD
That’s what 22.4s are for....after all they said 22.4s would “ eliminate unwanted overtime” ...lie #1,304
Last One In
Well-Known Member
Is every UPS center exactly the same? Guy I work with comes in over an hour every morning just so he can talk about everyone: who called in, who is getting the day off, who had an accident the day before, who has a complaint, who in his loop has fewer stops, etc.
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Guys like that, I’d like to back over them in my package car, get out and rip their eyebrows off, then go take my ten minute Union break.
Netsua 3:16
AND THAT’S THE BOTTOM LINE
He’s a couple years away but I’ve been told by other drivers that he’s not looking to stick around as stew after all the crap he’s put up with in the last year. That’s just what I hear from some trusted old driver buddies.
I think it was a lot easier to be stew in my building, when you got hooked up with 8-8.5 dispatches every day. So you had time to take care of some business after you finish route/before you leave the building. In the last year it’s changed so much and the grievances have multiplied. So he’s been out til 930 every night like the rest of us and has all this extra curricular crap to deal with. It’s a thankless job, but it’s great, purposeful, honest work, man. To be a steward for the Teamsters, I feel like to do that job correctly and fight for your fellow worker is an honorable lot in life. Not all stewards see it that way, I’m sure, but I’d be damn proud of it.
I have yet to have a man to man with him on the subject and my interest and Monday is probably a good day. Rather him hear it from me than someone else. Maybe he’ll help me, or at least let me know that I’m years away from getting a shot
