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<blockquote data-quote="Yaba Daba Do" data-source="post: 3582237" data-attributes="member: 57161">1. Wages are operating costs. If UPS didn&#039;t pay them the company wouldn&#039;t exist. Thanks to the Railway Labor Act fedex does not have anywhere near the cost that UPS has. Employees who perform the same job at competing companies should be covered by the same law. Yes UPS is in business because of what you do but if you felt like you were being taken advantage of and decided to go work for fedex or dhl then someone else would come in and take your spot and life would go on. I am not against making more money I am just saying that for us to make a lot more money like you&#039;re suggesting the competition would have to raise their wages as well. 2. I&#039;m sure UPS would be happy to not work you 12+ hours twice a week and 9.45 the other three if they could pay you the same as a fedex driver.I&#039;m not trying to take the companies side and that may be what it looks like, I just think it is beneficial to look at both sides to understand why it isn&#039;t realistic to expect the company pay us $45 or $50/hr while the competition is in the $20&#039;s.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaba Daba Do, post: 3582237, member: 57161"] 1. Wages are operating costs. If UPS didn't pay them the company wouldn't exist. Thanks to the Railway Labor Act fedex does not have anywhere near the cost that UPS has. Employees who perform the same job at competing companies should be covered by the same law. Yes UPS is in business because of what you do but if you felt like you were being taken advantage of and decided to go work for fedex or dhl then someone else would come in and take your spot and life would go on. I am not against making more money I am just saying that for us to make a lot more money like you're suggesting the competition would have to raise their wages as well. 2. I'm sure UPS would be happy to not work you 12+ hours twice a week and 9.45 the other three if they could pay you the same as a fedex driver. I'm not trying to take the companies side and that may be what it looks like, I just think it is beneficial to look at both sides to understand why it isn't realistic to expect the company pay us $45 or $50/hr while the competition is in the $20's. [/QUOTE]

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