Actually I think he meant part-timer hourly versus Full-time drivers.
He seems to have a good understanding who is actually screwing the part-timers.
Good understanding?
Last I checked, part time Teamsters had an more than an equal vote in every contract that full timers voted on. Exactly, how are we screwing the part timers?
I never let the air out of a part timer's tires in the parking lot. I never stole a part timer's girlfriend. I never screamed at a part timer for the junk yard dog load in my package car. I certainly never told anyone that part timers were paid just enough or too much.
No, that was on your side of the tie.
Full time drivers never held part time wages at 8 and 9 bucks an hour for 30 years.
At the end of the day, the simple numbers indicate that had part timers, as a whole, take any serious interest in the issues that affect them, they could have taken control of every contract.
They never have, and most of that fault lies at our union's feet, to the pleasure of guys like you. Because they could have permanently stole your lunch and mine too if they had any organization at all. Hell, they could have gutted the whole company if they wanted to. Maybe it was lucky for you and I that they couldn't figure out how. I believe they could have found a happy medium somewhere between where they are and where they could be comfortable.
But UPS won't budge, and they won't or can't fight it. I'm on record in these forums stating that our full time wages are good enough, and have been for some time now. And our position as a union should be strengthening up our flanks, and if that means bumping wages for seniority part timers up or giving them rights that keeps our numbers on the inside strong, and outsiders on the outside, then that's what we should do. But that opinion carries little weight around here.
Hell, son, you and I aren't so different. You're retired, and I'm in feeders. You like diversification in your portfolio, and I like a wide selection of craft beers in my basement fridge. I swore off the package car threads, but can't help myself from sassing drivers who work off the clock and feel sorry for supervipers. And, I'm sure, at one point, you told yourself you were above the fray, but jumped back into the fire if only to think you could get under Bubblehead's or anonymous's skin.
Don't worry, the burners ignore my words too. They're too worried about what you retired managers think to slow down.
If it makes you feel any better, I picture the both of us fishing on some high dollar bass boat you bought with all of those millions of UPS stock. I'm standing at the back of the boat with you, when you gas the boat, throwing me off the back of the boat, into the the water. You're standing up, doubled over in laughter at my fate, completely oblivious to the chain that I've attached to the back of the boat. When it catches, the boat stops violently, shooting you off the front of the boat, into the lake.
And there we are, both floating without a boat, without beer, with bluegills nipping the hairs off our shins.
Guess what? Neither one of us is the most interesting man in the world.
Maybe now we should argue about how the part timers are screwing us over...