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<blockquote data-quote="Moneythehardway" data-source="post: 1142847" data-attributes="member: 18136"><p>Yeah, you're right and that pretty much answers the question. Sad reality but it's true what you say.</p><p></p><p>However I will still put some of the blame on our union leaders for not taking care of us all as a whole. That new hire raise? Really isn't one if you think about it, because minimum wage at the pace it's going will meet or exceed that amount before this new proposed contract expires, minimum wage as a FACT is going up to $9 in 2014, so what do ya think it will be in 2018 when this contract expires? So essentially they HAD to up the starting wage, wasn't an option so they did us part timers no favors there, although on the surface it looks like it but it truly is a slight of the hand by the union.</p><p></p><p>Other than that, under my starting contract (2002-2008) we got $.475 split raises totaling $.95 a year, why is that being reduced to $.70 a year? What have we done to keep getting decreased like this. I would totally understand not to have a hand out for more if UPS was not profiting as much as it is, but for them to be profiting as much as they are, you would think our union would either keep us with the things we have now or get us MORE, not take away. Speaking for the ptimers here. And yes as stated in the beginning, we all understand, most ptimers don't participate when it comes to negotiating our futures, but thats the negotiations teams duty FIRST even before we have a voice and they seem to care less than we do, but we are a UNION heh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moneythehardway, post: 1142847, member: 18136"] Yeah, you're right and that pretty much answers the question. Sad reality but it's true what you say. However I will still put some of the blame on our union leaders for not taking care of us all as a whole. That new hire raise? Really isn't one if you think about it, because minimum wage at the pace it's going will meet or exceed that amount before this new proposed contract expires, minimum wage as a FACT is going up to $9 in 2014, so what do ya think it will be in 2018 when this contract expires? So essentially they HAD to up the starting wage, wasn't an option so they did us part timers no favors there, although on the surface it looks like it but it truly is a slight of the hand by the union. Other than that, under my starting contract (2002-2008) we got $.475 split raises totaling $.95 a year, why is that being reduced to $.70 a year? What have we done to keep getting decreased like this. I would totally understand not to have a hand out for more if UPS was not profiting as much as it is, but for them to be profiting as much as they are, you would think our union would either keep us with the things we have now or get us MORE, not take away. Speaking for the ptimers here. And yes as stated in the beginning, we all understand, most ptimers don't participate when it comes to negotiating our futures, but thats the negotiations teams duty FIRST even before we have a voice and they seem to care less than we do, but we are a UNION heh. [/QUOTE]
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