UPS plans to pay its army of holiday workers more this year

[cheryl]

UPS plans to pay its army of holiday workers more this year - Al Jazeera

The package delivery giant faces stiff competition for seasonal workers as US unemployment hovers near half-century low.

Package delivery giant United Parcel Service (UPS) on Monday said it expects to hire about 100,000 seasonal workers and pay them more than it did in the past to handle the avalanche of packages shipped in the United States between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, from November 28 through December 25.

That's about the same number of people the Atlanta-based company hired for the 2018 holiday season. UPS is also counting on automation to keep up with ongoing growth in online shopping.

 

[Waldo]

Here comes the $600 show up to work bonuses. It was $300 last year.

 

[upschuck]

It's not out of the goodness of their hearts, they're not.

 

[Packmule]

Would you rather they did nothing and end up even more understaffed than they normally are at peak?

 

[Wheeler]

Here comes the $600 show up to work bonuses. It was $300 last year.

Who gets $600 show up we never saw that in our center

 

[AwashBwashCwash]

Here comes the $600 show up to work bonuses. It was $300 last year.

$300 is their bonus?
That's more than my weekly wages.

 

[rod]

They get $600 a day show up money?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

They get $600 a day show up money?

Some places was giving an attendance bonus from $100 to $200 per week.

 

[rod]

Some places was giving an attendance bonus from $100 to $200 per week.

Damn--- I was just kidding and they really have gone nuts with extra bonus pay.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Damn--- I was just kidding and they really have gone nuts with extra bonus pay.

It's hard to get seasonal people anymore. Especially with other places more than UPS

 

[rod]

It's hard to get seasonal people anymore. Especially with other places more than UPS

Around here its hard to get people to work--- period. The area is full of deadbeat-- live off welfare rats. Just about every business has help wanted signs posted. Unfortunately most all of our high paying manufacturing jobs have disappeared over the years and have been replaced with the typical 10 to 15 bucks an hour crap.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Around here its hard to get people to work--- period. The area is full of deadbeat-- live off welfare rats. Just about every business has help wanted signs posted. Unfortunately most all of our high paying manufacturing jobs have disappeared over the years and have been replaced with the typical 10 to 15 bucks an hour crap.

We can't even get new drivers to stay for $21 an hour.

 

[rod]

We can't even get new drivers to stay for $21 an hour.

They could get them to stay if they would give the newbies a chance to learn everything at a reasonable pace and not overnight like they do.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

They could get them to stay if they would give the newbies a chance to learn everything at a reasonable pace and not overnight like they do.

You should see these derelicts in felons a higher because I can't get nobody else

 

[Waldo]

The bonus was all year last year at CACH (not just seasonal). Started at $125/week and went up to $300/week by September. It was mostly because nobody would stay when the pay was only $10.35.

 

[Boywondr]

Around here its hard to get people to work--- period. The area is full of deadbeat-- live off welfare rats. Just about every business has help wanted signs posted. Unfortunately most all of our high paying manufacturing jobs have disappeared over the years and have been replaced with the typical 10 to 15 bucks an hour crap.

Like part timers get?

 

[Boywondr]

You should see these derelicts in felons a higher because I can't get nobody else

Yep. Going into supervision is a tough sell.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yep. Going into supervision is a tough sell.

Couldn't pay me enough

 

[rod]

Like part timers get?

Not really. If you are a full time worker chances are good you are making more than 10-15 bucks an hour at UPS. I don't believe part time jobs were set up to be a MAIN source of income for a worker - that's just the way it is. Add on the benefits part timers get at UPS and that makes it way above what part time help gets in other industries. I'm not saying this is right but that's just the way it is. Don't like it?-organize and vote for your own agenda----or go full time when the chance opens------lots of part timers don't.

 

[Boywondr]

Not really. If you are a full time worker chances are good you are making more than 10-15 bucks an hour at UPS. I don't believe part time jobs were set up to be a MAIN source of income for a worker - that's just the way it is. Add on the benefits part timers get at UPS and that makes it way above what part time help gets in other industries. I'm not saying this is right but that's just the way it is. Don't like it?-organize and vote for your own agenda----or go full time when the chance opens------lots of part timers don't.

You missed my point. Not a big deal.