UPS Freight Potential Strike? Through the Wire In J.O.C. 11-1-18

Here's the dealio:

Too many guys(and i might even be doing this myself soon) have overbought. They got new, nice cars----mercedes, suburbans, cadillacs, LINcoin navagators etc. Yes, lots of LTL drivers here at UPS freight have mercedeses. A large house. And 2 or more shorties (kids). In addition here on the east coast, and i'm sure in many other major metro areas irregardless of location, we're getting taxed up the butt. And most of these guys don't have any tax shelters besides the house.
AND THE COMPANY KNOWS THIS.

Really funny how the pervading atmosphere only a few weeks ago was, "The company is full of crap. The new contract is b.s., VOTE NO" etc. etc.

Now it's, "Well, you know the contract really isn't that bad. i can't afford not to work. i think we should vote yes."

Too many guys cannot afford NOT to work----they may lose their cars, house etc.

The company KNOWS this.

STRIKE AIN'T HAPPENING.

Yes, we are in emptying mode----the yards are messes. This, is a colossal waste of time and energy.

 

Of course they're subcontracting around the union, looking for options for when the union decides they want more pay than the company makes.

 

UPS is an incredibly Rich, incredibly profitable company that is looking to squeeze more profit.

This entire situation is created by the greed of corporate UPS trying to extract more money off of the backs of their company employees.

While I like to doing UPSs contract work, I support the UPS employees that should be able to retain their job and their contractual benefits !!...without being jeopardized by the greedy corporate interests of UPS !!

The timing of this strike is incredibly critical in the midst of the Holiday Rush season!!

 

This is untrue.

UPS just wants to squeeze more profit... Last year was $18.8 BILLION Profit.... An increase of almost a billion from the previous year.

This year they want to continue to squeeze and increase profit.....BUT they are claiming that if they need to satisfy the Union, company drivers they will "lose" money.

This however is a complete lie, they are not actually losing any money it is just a slightly lower predicted profit margin. Not an actual loss.

The choice is having a ever slightly reduced profit margin and keeping company employees or Outsourcing the work with contractors and throwing all the employees on to the taxpayer unemployment.

This is 100% UPS corporate greed.

They will still be over $18 BILLION Profit this year if they agree to the contract.

 

The purpose of having a business is to make money, they should just tell all their employees you're getting x amount, a decent livable wage of let's say 18 bucks an hour, more if that's what it takes to not be homeless in that area, if you don't like it there's the ####ing door right over there. What are they getting paid now? If next year is a real crappy year and the business doesn't make much are the employees going to kick some money back to keep shareholders happy, not ####ing likely. The business makes more money from one year over the other and immediately all the employees think they should be paid better,they never think they should make less when the company does though.

 

Contract negotiations MAY be dragged out for months...maybe years. Small package already has their national contract agreed upon, even though the majority voted NO, but it was overruled by Hoffa and Taylor. So they're pretty much a done deal. Now they have to wait on Freight's decision and ratifying all the supplemental contracts (regional and local) before EVERYTHING is set in stone. Even the Air line workers voted NO on they're contract, and they haven't had a contract in 4 years.

This kinda reminds me of the Overnight strike that went on for 3 years. Looks like Overnights ugly strike legacy MIGHT come back AGAIN, now that they're UPSF.....

 

Or they could just be looking around the industry and asking themselves why they have to pay more for drivers than everybody else is paying.

 

We have the same thing happening with our drivers unlike ups we are not union but paid like it well most of the guys working have newer cars big houses and plenty of bills that rely on a big paycheck that's why they do the dreaded foodservice lol they dont want to take the pay cut to go to the bottom of a p and d board at a ltl or have to work nights driving linehaul so the stick it out unloading food.