UPS testing of telematics tools draws ire of union dissident group

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UPS testing of telematics tools draws ire of union dissident group - Freight Waves

Teamsters for a Democratic Union warns of driver harassment issues

UPS Inc. said it is testing advanced technology that it claims will enhance driver and public safety, to the chagrin of a Teamsters union dissident group that warns the company could be continuing a decades-long pattern of leveraging technology to harass its drivers.

The Atlanta-based company has installed the “Lytx Drivecam” in its familiar brown vans at four centers in Texas and Oklahoma. It is the first step in a plan to install the technology nationwide, according to the Teamsters For a Democratic Union (TDU), a group at constant war with mainstream Teamster leadership and deeply suspicious of UPS’ labor-related initiatives.

UPS, which is the largest Teamster employer with about 252,000 members, would not comment on whether a nationwide rollout is planned.

 

[JJinVA]

Ooo I feel a strike coming on. This Carol chic is really off to a good start! First embracing a domestic terror organization, then battling the union during a pandemic BEFORE Christmas.

A one week strike would bury this company at this point in time

 

[DriverNerd]

Cameras in cab and watching the road is inevitable. Not sure how much the union is working against the issue at the moment, but it's going to happen.

 

[BadIdeaGuy]

Cameras in cab and watching the road is inevitable. Not sure how much the union is working against the issue at the moment, but it's going to happen.

If it happens, it will be the end of the union.
They can't use the data for terminations... --Except that they can, after a fashion.

If they want to get rid of you, they can start watching you from the ease of their chairs. For hours. Days, if they really don't like you.

Figure out exactly what corners you cut, (And let's not fool ourselves, everyone does SOME things against the methods), and figure out when you do them.

From there, it's a simple matter to anticipate when you will do those things, and send a witness out to confirm.
They don't even have to bring up the fact that they were using cameras to research how to get rid of you. As far as the union will be concerned, they caught you doing something wrong with some on road observation.

The union needs to kill this one, or this will kill the union.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

If it happens, it will be the end of the union.
They can't use the data for terminations... --Except that they can, after a fashion.

If they want to get rid of you, they can start watching you from the ease of their chairs. For hours. Days, if they really don't like you.

Figure out exactly what corners you cut, (And let's not fool ourselves, everyone does SOME things against the methods), and figure out when you do them.

From there, it's a simple matter to anticipate when you will do those things, and send a witness out to confirm.
They don't even have to bring up the fact that they were using cameras to research how to get rid of you. As far as the union will be concerned, they caught you doing something wrong with some on road observation.

The union needs to kill this one, or this will kill the union.

I guess the company is trying to sneak all the stuff in before the elections next year and we have a different IBT leadership