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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 4924504" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>Amazon is increasing their DSP capacity by plan, and reducing their reliance on flex as they increase that capacity. Flex is not reducing because it does not work. </p><p>It did and does work exactly as intended. If DSPs have a lot of call outs and have to drop routes, those routes are recycled to flex drivers. The whole point was to add flexibility into the network so they could respond to changing, chaotic situations. Have a lot of last minute same day orders? Flex drivers. At 11:30AM Amazon can plan an impromptu preload and run a feeder or two to Flex and get it all delivered.</p><p></p><p>UPS does not have anywhere near that level of flexibility, and can't. Flexibility is antithetical to a union environment. That's not a slam on the union by the way, there is no judgement in that, that's just a statement of objective fact. </p><p></p><p>If you drink the IBT cool aide your first reaction to that statement will be 'bullcrap!'. Most union reps will say "total crap, if you were smart, you could run this operation just as nimbly as a non-union shop. Now, let's stop all that nonsense and get back to negotiating all these articles in the NMA that restrict how you can adjust the work plan to adjust to the rapidly changing delivery environment"</p><p></p><p>And they say it with a straight face...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 4924504, member: 14596"] Amazon is increasing their DSP capacity by plan, and reducing their reliance on flex as they increase that capacity. Flex is not reducing because it does not work. It did and does work exactly as intended. If DSPs have a lot of call outs and have to drop routes, those routes are recycled to flex drivers. The whole point was to add flexibility into the network so they could respond to changing, chaotic situations. Have a lot of last minute same day orders? Flex drivers. At 11:30AM Amazon can plan an impromptu preload and run a feeder or two to Flex and get it all delivered. UPS does not have anywhere near that level of flexibility, and can't. Flexibility is antithetical to a union environment. That's not a slam on the union by the way, there is no judgement in that, that's just a statement of objective fact. If you drink the IBT cool aide your first reaction to that statement will be 'bullcrap!'. Most union reps will say "total crap, if you were smart, you could run this operation just as nimbly as a non-union shop. Now, let's stop all that nonsense and get back to negotiating all these articles in the NMA that restrict how you can adjust the work plan to adjust to the rapidly changing delivery environment" And they say it with a straight face... [/QUOTE]
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