Hey Pat,
Check your facts. The UPS part-timers can and are striking. sorry they don't
make $50k but they earn $12 an hour with full bennies (health, 401K, pention)
been in a union my self...it sucked. Please note that the teamsters won't
let the members look at or vote on the current offer made by ups even though
its better thatn the old agreement. Over the next five years moving 10,000
part timers to full time plus other good stuff. I hope they publish the offer
in the paper so we all can read it.
Dave
work union, loose you job
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From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net on behalf of patrick bailey
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 1997 10:39 AM
To: Bob De Weese
Cc: Thomas James Pokrefke, III; mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: UPS and LBC parts
> Sorry, but it's difficult to be "sympathetic" to someone who's making
> $50,000 a year plus another $20,000 in beneffits, and walks off the job.
(rant mode ON)
> What is at issue from what I can get is the poor slobs that work from12
midnight to 3AM for a
> lousy $24!also the fact that if UPS can REPLACE the good people with the
part time help they
> won't be making the $50,000 + benefits!The part-timers CAN'T strike.I'll bet
if I called you at
> 2AM to come get me in my car because I lost my keys you would charge a hell
of a lot more than $24
> IF you would drag your butt out of bed!Sorry to rant but I'm getting sick
and tired of these
> effette attacks on the hard working union members while ignoring the fact
that UPS made 1.6
> BILLION in profits last year and only pays their part timers a lousy $8 an
hour at that ungodly
> hour!Have you seen a UPS guy work? He is running all day long!How many of
you would work that
> hard?I'm sure all of you feel that what you make is justified so why isn't
what they make
> justified?Rush Limbaugh is always raving about "class envy" well I see a
type of reverse
> envy,where an engineer or professional doesn't like it if a "blue collar"
worker makes anywhere
> near what they make,they feel they are better than those heathens and
goddammit they should be
> kept in their place!Well thank god for unions they are not perfect but at
least the average guy
> can have some clout in this world where he is being taken advantage of by
those companies.What
> would UPS be without the sorters and drivers?Where would ANY company be
without the grunt labor?At
> least allow them the dignity of a decent living and unions do just
that!(rant mode OFF)
Pat (work union,live better)
BTW I'm waiting for parts also but I still give the strikers a BIG thumbs up
when I drive by!
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