UPS Supports Right to Work (for less)

[arice11]

A Local Teamster newspaper mentions UPS in an article titled "Tell UPS to pink slip ALEC, members urged"
The fascinating facts in this report that 40,00 members are being "Urged by the International Union to tell UPS to stop supporting ALEC (The American Legislative Exchange Council)
My own home state has these bills in the legislature and more are listed.
According to the article ALEC has been exposed and the heat is on for corporations like Pepsi, Kraft, Mc Donald's and so on.
The shocking part of this bewildering but not surprising story is that Blue Cross and Blue Shield (the health providers for my contract) are abandoning ALEC, while thousands of teamsters are pushing UPS to leave behind a sinking ship that supports Right to Work (for less) *or more if the minimum wage issue ensues...but I digress.
What is going to happen when my health provider separates from my source of income?
Could we see a change in the actual operations within out buildings because of this unlikely alliance UPS apparently is holding onto an already shamed name?

 

[Brownslave688]

Like all of your posts.......






Huh?

 

[scratch]

Would somebody mention what happened with the 1982 contract when a lot of people didn't bother to vote??? Like all the others.......

 

[arice11]

Would somebody mention what happened with the 1982 contract when a lot of people didn't bother to vote??? Like all the others.......

What happened when they didn't vote?

 

[scratch]

The part timers who outnumbered the full timers got stuck at $8 an hour after that.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

The part timers who outnumbered the full timers got stuck at $8 an hour after that.

And they enjoyed no wage increases for 2 decades,while ours doubled.

 

[arice11]

And they enjoyed no wage increases for 2 decades,while ours doubled.

Twenty years of no wage increase?
How did it end up swinging back? My contract includes raises here and there.

 

[Turdferguson]

Twenty years of no wage increase?
How did it end up swinging back? My contract includes raises here and there.

Starting pay has not increased

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Twenty years of no wage increase?
How did it end up swinging back? My contract includes raises here and there.

They always gave more to the full timers because we vote. When I started $8 wasn't bad money. 30 years later its only $10

 

[Box Ox]

Starting pay has not increased

Yes it has. Preloaders started at $8.50 last contract and start at $11 now.

 

[Brownslave688]

Yes it has. Preloaders started at $8.50 last contract and start at $11 now.

$10


And they lost their 90 day $1 an hour raises. So after 3 months they get 50 cents more. Wow

 

[arice11]

$10


And they lost their 90 day $1 an hour raises. So after 3 months they get 50 cents more. Wow

So its 10.50 after three months?
My contract included a dollar raise after 90 days. I guess that's all phased out now.

 

[scratch]

I was part time in 1982, I think I was making $12-13 an hour. It was a very bad contract.

 

[oldngray]

I was part time in 1982, I think I was making $12-13 an hour. It was a very bad contract.

I think I was making $14 and change as a PT preloader in 1982. Same rate as FT drivers.

 

[Box Ox]

$10

Look at Article 22, Section 5 in the National Master. Page 69. $11 start and $11.50 at one year.

 

[Turdferguson]

Yes it has. Preloaders started at $8.50 last contract and start at $11 now.

Three dollars in twenty years. Wow how generous

 

[Box Ox]

Three dollars in twenty years. Wow how generous

Didn't say it was generous. Just said it's increased. I suffered under it too.

 

[Turdferguson]

Didn't say it was generous. Just said it's increased. I suffered under it too.

$3.00 in twenty years is the same as no increase

 

[scratch]

I think I was making $14 and change as a PT preloader in 1982. Same rate as FT drivers.

I was probably making $14 an hour then. I still have some paycheck stubs from the seventies where they didn't put the complete date on them. They left the last number of the year off for some reason. Back then most of the part timers were high school and college students, they weren't planning on staying at UPS for a career.

 

[oldngray]

I was probably making $14 an hour then. I still have some paycheck stubs from the seventies where they didn't put the complete date on them. They left the last number of the year off for some reason. Back then most of the part timers were high school and college students, they weren't planning on staying at UPS for a career.

Yeah, UPS wanted college students that would work a couple of years then leave. The union also liked it for the extra initiation fees from the turnover.