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<blockquote data-quote="35years" data-source="post: 3263965" data-attributes="member: 60822">I have given you ample reasons why your argument is flawed.It is incumbent upon you to defend your speculation. You made the original claim, not me.Also, part time employee compensation (which are a large part of the workforce) would not for the most part be affected by the changes. Also International employees would also not be affected. So extrapolating your speculative 10% cost figure for full time hourly employees to equate to a 10% increase in total costs company wide is nonsense.UPS estimates there are 55,000 package car drivers in the USA, add the feeder drivers in and you have perhaps 80,000 out of a total worldwide workforce of 445,000. So your estimate of costs would have to be divided by 4 or 5. So an increase of compensation costs of perhaps 2%, not 10%.I suspect you realize this, and are just spouting the company propaganda in anticipation of the upcoming contract.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="35years, post: 3263965, member: 60822"] I have given you ample reasons why your argument is flawed. It is incumbent upon you to defend your speculation. You made the original claim, not me. Also, part time employee compensation (which are a large part of the workforce) would not for the most part be affected by the changes. Also International employees would also not be affected. So extrapolating your speculative 10% cost figure for full time hourly employees to equate to a 10% increase in total costs company wide is nonsense. UPS estimates there are 55,000 package car drivers in the USA, add the feeder drivers in and you have perhaps 80,000 out of a total worldwide workforce of 445,000. So your estimate of costs would have to be divided by 4 or 5. So an increase of compensation costs of perhaps 2%, not 10%. I suspect you realize this, and are just spouting the company propaganda in anticipation of the upcoming contract. [/QUOTE]

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