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<blockquote data-quote="Average at Best" data-source="post: 328372" data-attributes="member: 14548"><p>I'm not sure how true it is, but they told me at NSO that Casey invited the union in either 1.) so that the employees wouldn't join a more radical union than the teamsters or 2.) because he had the premonition that the teamsters would be necessary to protect the workforce. Who knows?</p><p> </p><p>In my opinion, UPS needs the teamsters to keep quality employees around, especially the drivers. You figure - if you give a guy backbreaking work AND he's the face of the company out on the street, he isn't going to do it for peanuts. But I also think that the system is failing. Part of it may be generational, part of it may be UPS' world-famous micromanagement reaching the limit. Part of it might be the egotistical and/or inept management style of the generation coming up on the other side of the union/management fence. </p><p> </p><p>All I can observe is that your really great drivers are getting on and retiring, the younger ones don't want to stay out so late every night and they have less loyalty to the company - are more willing to find other work, and they don't want to deal with management. Management, on the other hand: you've got the old timers running out the clock that are burnt out, the young ones coming up are either corrupt and power-hungry, not corrupt but dumb as a rock, not corrupt but unwilling to put up with the system and therefore leaves, or not corrupt and unable to change the way things work.</p><p> </p><p>So to answer your question, UPS needs the union to keep good people around. The lazy troublemaking ones are the exception, not the norm. Just my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Average at Best, post: 328372, member: 14548"] I'm not sure how true it is, but they told me at NSO that Casey invited the union in either 1.) so that the employees wouldn't join a more radical union than the teamsters or 2.) because he had the premonition that the teamsters would be necessary to protect the workforce. Who knows? In my opinion, UPS needs the teamsters to keep quality employees around, especially the drivers. You figure - if you give a guy backbreaking work AND he's the face of the company out on the street, he isn't going to do it for peanuts. But I also think that the system is failing. Part of it may be generational, part of it may be UPS' world-famous micromanagement reaching the limit. Part of it might be the egotistical and/or inept management style of the generation coming up on the other side of the union/management fence. All I can observe is that your really great drivers are getting on and retiring, the younger ones don't want to stay out so late every night and they have less loyalty to the company - are more willing to find other work, and they don't want to deal with management. Management, on the other hand: you've got the old timers running out the clock that are burnt out, the young ones coming up are either corrupt and power-hungry, not corrupt but dumb as a rock, not corrupt but unwilling to put up with the system and therefore leaves, or not corrupt and unable to change the way things work. So to answer your question, UPS needs the union to keep good people around. The lazy troublemaking ones are the exception, not the norm. Just my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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