Strike at UPS?
May 31, 2023 06:07:39 #
Working conditions at UPS have been getting worse, while corporate profits are rising. UPS has begun to emphasize profit over everything else. Remember when Boeing did that? They made a lot of profit, but planes started crashing, and several popular models were grounded.
The CEO of UPS took home $31 million last year, yet they are finding ways to reduce the pay of the people who do the work. About 50% of the drivers are part-time, earning less than the full-timers, but doing the same work. Drivers often work over twelve hours a day, and the name of the game is to move packages. Working conditions have declined, and drivers are concerned that there is no end in sight. If an agreement isn't reached by July, there will be the largest strike the US has ever seen.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ups+strike&oq=ups+strike&aqs=edge..69i57j0i131i433i512l3j0i512j0i131i433i512l2j0i512j69i64.3727j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The CEO of UPS took home $31 million last year, yet they are finding ways to reduce the pay of the people who do the work. About 50% of the drivers are part-time, earning less than the full-timers, but doing the same work. Drivers often work over twelve hours a day, and the name of the game is to move packages. Working conditions have declined, and drivers are concerned that there is no end in sight. If an agreement isn't reached by July, there will be the largest strike the US has ever seen.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ups+strike&oq=ups+strike&aqs=edge..69i57j0i131i433i512l3j0i512j0i131i433i512l2j0i512j69i64.3727j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
May 31, 2023 06:11:53 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Working conditions at UPS have been getting worse,... (show quote)
I was lucky to retire when I did back in '13 after 40 years. Things are getting pretty bad from what I hear.
May 31, 2023 09:52:30 #
therwol
Loc: USA
jerryc41 wrote:
Working conditions at UPS have been getting worse,... (show quote)
There are alternatives to UPS, the post office, FedEx and others. A strike will likely not affect consumers much unless the alternatives become overwhelmed by volume.
May 31, 2023 10:17:43 #
Ava'sPapa wrote:
I was lucky to retire when I did back in '13 after 40 years. Things are getting pretty bad from what I hear.
That's 40 yrs. with the PO.
May 31, 2023 12:13:52 #
therwol wrote:
...unless the alternatives become overwhelmed by volume.
How could they not become overwhelmed? I'd better order everything on my Amazon Wish List right now!
Jun 1, 2023 08:14:39 #
I spent 2.5 years there in the 70's. Even then everything was controlled by the stop watch.
We had a strike then over work conditions. Getting radios in the truck was a big deal then.
Glad to no longer be a part of that bunch.
We had a strike then over work conditions. Getting radios in the truck was a big deal then.
Glad to no longer be a part of that bunch.
Jun 1, 2023 08:43:23 #
Jun 1, 2023 09:33:44 #
At the risk of getting too political, it's the same across industry. CEOs of the failed banks awarded themselves massive bonuses just before their banks went south while minimum wage employees faced unemployment. Oil companies reaped billions in profit while gas prices soared and employees had no benefits. It's the same thing, over and over. Somewhere around Reagan's presidency, businesses stopped looking at their employees as a valuable resource and instead considered them an expendable production component.
Jun 1, 2023 09:46:59 #
jerryc41 wrote:
In the area Amazon makes their own deliveries. We see the Amazon trucks all over the place.How could they not become overwhelmed? I'd better order everything on my Amazon Wish List right now!
Jun 1, 2023 09:53:42 #
Bananapuppy
Loc: Sunny Tucson, AZ
I read that Tim Cook, the CEO at Apple, received a compensation package of $210,000,000 (that's MILLION) in 2021. And, being a loyal Apple user since 1986, I've personally experienced a massive deterioration in quality, especially regarding the iPhone. Cook has taken Apple from being the industry leader in quality and consumer-centric policy to being totally and completely profit oriented, damn the consumer. Steve Jobs is surely rolling over in his grave, Apple is no longer the company he dreamed of and established. Just my opinion and very disappointing. Bp
Jun 1, 2023 09:59:17 #
bobups
Loc: Bath pa
I spent 321/2 years at ups all the other companies combined couldn’t handle the volume ups does every normal day 24 million packages
Jun 1, 2023 14:27:28 #
bcplimpton
Loc: Southern New Jersey
therwol wrote:
There are alternatives to UPS, the post office, FedEx and others. A strike will likely not affect consumers much unless the alternatives become overwhelmed by volume.
In my part of the country both of the alternatives are several steps down in service.
Jun 1, 2023 14:33:33 #
Jun 1, 2023 15:21:46 #
clint f.
Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa
therwol wrote:
There are alternatives to UPS, the post office, FedEx and others. A strike will likely not affect consumers much unless the alternatives become overwhelmed by volume.
You are kidding right. If they quit operating every package in their system would sit until they started delivering again. I ran into this with a time sensitive medical device package because they don’t deliver on weekends. We are considered remote delivery so the estimated arrival was late leaving from the supplier so the date of deliver was wildly inaccurate. Combined it meant no package. I even drove 30 miles to try to get it from the holding facility with a polite, sorry we can’t get it off the delivery truck. I’m pretty sure a strike would be devastating to a huge number of people.
Jun 1, 2023 15:24:33 #
Amielee
Loc: Eastern Washington State
When they quit calling the employment office employment and started calling it human resources it started downhill. People are people and employed or hired. Resources are dehumanizing and used.
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