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<blockquote data-quote="JonFrum" data-source="post: 376647"><p>Normally the National Labor Relations Act does not allow supervisors to be union members because they have the power to hire and fire (or at least to recommend who gets hired and fired.) In limited cases, some supervisors could join together among themselves and form a union of their own.</p><p></p><p>But in UPS' case, supes have very little managerial power and some (many?) routinely do bargaining unit work in flagrant violation of The Contract. I believe someone should file to have UPS supes, as a class (or at least in certain buildings) declared non-management employees, and thus bargaining unit members, just like the rest of us. This case would be based on the idea that UPS is perpetrating a fraud by misclassifing certain lead hands as supes. </p><p></p><p>It's just like how FedEx misclassifies certain employees as "independent contractors" in order to evade taxes and other laws. It's a ruse, a ploy, a subterfuge, a scam. UPS enthusiastically agrees that FedEx is guilty. Let's just apply that same logic to UPS' claim that its working foremen are supes and therefore ineligible for bargaining unit membership. Think of all the union jobs and dues and initiation fees and all the pension and health & welfare contributions UPS is denying the Teamsters and us. </p><p></p><p>I wonder if the case could apply to past misclassification as well, not just to the present and future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonFrum, post: 376647"] Normally the National Labor Relations Act does not allow supervisors to be union members because they have the power to hire and fire (or at least to recommend who gets hired and fired.) In limited cases, some supervisors could join together among themselves and form a union of their own. But in UPS' case, supes have very little managerial power and some (many?) routinely do bargaining unit work in flagrant violation of The Contract. I believe someone should file to have UPS supes, as a class (or at least in certain buildings) declared non-management employees, and thus bargaining unit members, just like the rest of us. This case would be based on the idea that UPS is perpetrating a fraud by misclassifing certain lead hands as supes. It's just like how FedEx misclassifies certain employees as "independent contractors" in order to evade taxes and other laws. It's a ruse, a ploy, a subterfuge, a scam. UPS enthusiastically agrees that FedEx is guilty. Let's just apply that same logic to UPS' claim that its working foremen are supes and therefore ineligible for bargaining unit membership. Think of all the union jobs and dues and initiation fees and all the pension and health & welfare contributions UPS is denying the Teamsters and us. I wonder if the case could apply to past misclassification as well, not just to the present and future. [/QUOTE]
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