UPS strikes a deal with Teamsters, averting a national strike

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  1. Chinatown

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    United Parcel Service workers and their union have reached a tentative agreement on a five-year contract. If approved, the pact averts what threatened to be the first walkout in decades at the shipping giant.


    The deal negotiated with the Teamsters covers 250,000 workers -- mostly drivers and package handlers -- and includes pay increases. It also lays the groundwork for Sunday deliveries by UPS.

    Denis Taylor, co-chairman of the Teamsters' UPS national negotiating committee, in a statement called the agreement "among the very best ever negotiated for UPS members."

    Starting in August, the deal boosts starting pay for part-time package handlers from $10.35 an hour to $13, with the rate to rise to $15.50 over the next four years. Drivers, who now earn $19 an hour, will see their salary increase to $20.50 later this summer, with their pay climbing to $34.79 an hour in 2022.

    Union members will vote next month on the contract. Workers had given the union the go-ahead to call a strike earlier this month, giving the Teamsters leverage in the negotiations.

    The last strike by UPS workers in 1997 lasted more than two weeks and disrupted package delivery service around the country.
     
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  3. buddyd157

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    i kinda figured as much..

    they always make it sound like the end of the world is coming.
     
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    I remember a strike they had in Nashville. Had some packages that really needed to be moved, so an office guy with a cdl agreed to move that truckload. He flipped the truck on a curve and was killed. There was no sympathy from the regular drivers on the news. Comments suggested, "He deserved it."
     
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    well, once someone crosses the picket line(s), they are considered a SCAB employee.

    strikes are taken seriously.
     
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    It still has to be voted on by the members. But there's increases to benefits and feeder drivers ger a $4.15 an hour raise throught the contract. They haven't released mileage pay raises yet.
    But by the end of the contract that puts top rate for me around $40.90 an hour.
     
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    Unions support democrats.Democrats need more money,then workers need more money.
     
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    They don't always support Democrats but usually do because Democrats don't vow to destroy unions.

    But Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin.
    Both scandalous and corrupt.
     
  9. Chinatown

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    I've crossed a few picket lines. They have a right to picket and I have a right to cross picket lines so as not to sacrifice part of a weeks pay just for them.
    When I was a Teamster, I crossed picket lines to make deliveries. I was not going to give up a couple hundred dollars just for them.
    One company I worked for put UAW & Teamsters decals on the trailers because those guys were doing serious damage to the equipment because we weren't union. Slashing tires, knocking holes in the sides of the trailers, purposely damaging doors so they wouldn't close, cutting air lines.
    That's why I didn't hesitate to cross picket lines. I bought a machete at an Army Surplus Store, just in case someone decided to be a tough guy toward me.
    There was no more damage after the decals were put on the trailers.
     
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    I remember a beer (Budweiser?) strike in Chicago.The bars needed their beer,so scabs were used,and even with security escorts,it was ugly.
     
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    i know, "strikers pay" is only a "few dollars" a day, walking the picket lines, (i think) the union paid the workers that money.

    whether i was union (only one employer) or non, i respected the lines. my late dad taught me that, and as a son, i obeyed his suggestion. to this day, i have no worries about any such lines, the customer we haul for is non-union.

    and frankly, i respect what others do, to make a day's pay. but i will not go against it for my reasons.
     
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