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<blockquote data-quote="brown_trousers" data-source="post: 1095212" data-attributes="member: 29972">Part-timers deserve a bit of catch up on their wages.&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe we should have union workers here at UPS who lose at every contract negotiation.&nbsp; Not only do they lose, but we keep lowering their wages (based on inflation) every contract.&nbsp; My father worked as a part-timer in the early 1980s.&nbsp; He tells me that his UPS wages covered a car payment, rent, and tuition.&nbsp; That would be an impossibility these days with part-time wages where they are at.&nbsp; And while I don&#039;t support them making as much as us Full-timers do, I don&#039;t believe they should have to lower their standards of living every contract.&nbsp; At the very least we should negotiate for them to keep up their standards of living with maybe a bit of improvement.&nbsp; Over the past 20 years, part-time compensation has devolved from being able to pay rent and own a car, to present day, where they can&#039;t even afford rent without a few roomates to share it with.&nbsp; We have in effect negotiated them pay-cuts and moved them into poverty.&nbsp; Just compare what a part-timer with 5yrs seniority could afford in 1985 -vs- what a part-timer with 5yrs seniority can afford now.&nbsp; How can we as a union justify such paycuts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="brown_trousers, post: 1095212, member: 29972"] Part-timers deserve a bit of catch up on their wages. I don't believe we should have union workers here at UPS who lose at every contract negotiation. Not only do they lose, but we keep lowering their wages (based on inflation) every contract. My father worked as a part-timer in the early 1980s. He tells me that his UPS wages covered a car payment, rent, and tuition. That would be an impossibility these days with part-time wages where they are at. And while I don't support them making as much as us Full-timers do, I don't believe they should have to lower their standards of living every contract. At the very least we should negotiate for them to keep up their standards of living with maybe a bit of improvement. Over the past 20 years, part-time compensation has devolved from being able to pay rent and own a car, to present day, where they can't even afford rent without a few roomates to share it with. We have in effect negotiated them pay-cuts and moved them into poverty. Just compare what a part-timer with 5yrs seniority could afford in 1985 -vs- what a part-timer with 5yrs seniority can afford now. How can we as a union justify such paycuts? [/QUOTE]

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