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<blockquote data-quote="air_upser" data-source="post: 58846"><p>Agreed clever. As I stated in one of my first posts on this board, I am not anti-union. People get taken advantage of in all walks of life, and a union is something that help when its a company or idiot manager. </p><p>My three main problems with unions are: </p><p>1. Representation of employees that don't deserve it. The ones that don't work, screw off, whatever. The team is not stronger keeping them around and shouldn't be protected simply because they are a "brother or sister". </p><p>2. Work rules. I'd say the problem doesn't exist at UPS, but in constuction, especially in the northeast, you better not do anything that makes others look bad, like carrying more than one set of blinds up the stairs. True story. </p><p>3. Contract negotiations and salaries. Everyone at UPS makes a good wage and has good benefits. Heck, there's a waiting list to become a UPS driver. Maybe I'm off base here, but why can't the union accept increases based on the cost of living? My impression is at every contract the union tries to get more than what it really needs. Maybe the company is the same way, I'm really not sure. What are the issues for 2007? Cost of living increase and better rules as far as work hours goes in turn for more flexibility for the company. Signed early. Benefits will probably be big too. We just learned of changes for 2006....more coming out of my pocket. </p><p>Anyway, we all need to work better together and that would probably solve a lot of the issues. As always, thanks for you insight!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="air_upser, post: 58846"] Agreed clever. As I stated in one of my first posts on this board, I am not anti-union. People get taken advantage of in all walks of life, and a union is something that help when its a company or idiot manager. My three main problems with unions are: 1. Representation of employees that don't deserve it. The ones that don't work, screw off, whatever. The team is not stronger keeping them around and shouldn't be protected simply because they are a "brother or sister". 2. Work rules. I'd say the problem doesn't exist at UPS, but in constuction, especially in the northeast, you better not do anything that makes others look bad, like carrying more than one set of blinds up the stairs. True story. 3. Contract negotiations and salaries. Everyone at UPS makes a good wage and has good benefits. Heck, there's a waiting list to become a UPS driver. Maybe I'm off base here, but why can't the union accept increases based on the cost of living? My impression is at every contract the union tries to get more than what it really needs. Maybe the company is the same way, I'm really not sure. What are the issues for 2007? Cost of living increase and better rules as far as work hours goes in turn for more flexibility for the company. Signed early. Benefits will probably be big too. We just learned of changes for 2006....more coming out of my pocket. Anyway, we all need to work better together and that would probably solve a lot of the issues. As always, thanks for you insight! [/QUOTE]
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