Possible UPS strike

[johngross]

You might want to pay attention to the news about this in the coming months.


UPS Teamsters union threatens strike: Here'''s a look back at 1997 | Fortune


"August 4, 1997, probably doesn't stand out as a significant day in world history. But some would disagree.

That was the first time United Parcel Service (UPS) workers organized a nationwide strike in the U.S., which ended up with the company losing almost $780 million. In the 15 days that the strike lasted, 80% of UPS shipments went undelivered.

Now it may be happening again."

 

[pantannojack]

The POOR greedy drivers were cashing in 20$ per easy hour when AZ const workers sweated blood for 15.

 

[Eric300]

'Where's Jimmy?'

 

[K-22]

UPS

The POOR greedy drivers were cashing in 20$ per easy hour when AZ const workers sweated blood for 15.

A couple of the guys at the gun club work for UPS.
Those folks earn their money.
Ever notice you don't see any old UPS drivers?
Best,
Gary

 

[Beemerguy53]

A couple of the guys at the gun club work for UPS.
Those folks earn their money.
Ever notice you don't see any old UPS drivers?
Best,
Gary

Agreed. UPS pays its drivers well, and they work very hard for their money.

 

[ColbyBruce]

I had ten years with the USPS when that UPS strike occurred. It was brutal, as most of our routes averaged less than fifty parcels per day then suddenly had two or three hundred. We kept a good bit of that business after the strike ended. Customers held grudges. UPS drivers (except for the man who delivers to my neighborhood) earn their pay. I have seen 168° temps in a UPS truck. Few people work in that heat.

 

[quikdraw67]

I remember time that time well.

FedEx Ground ate UPS's lunch for many years after that.

I see FedEx Ground trucks out delivering on Sunday, since they aren't union.

FedEx Ground is also cheaper (and usually faster) than UPS.

Who do you think is going to win in the long run?

 

[Bald1]

The company won't let a strike happen. The Teamsters will take a strike vote but never authorize a strike. Both sides have to much to loose. I say this as a 33 yr Teamster and 2 time elected union representative. Lots of Sabre rattling but that'll be it.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Where's Jimmy Hoffa when we need him??? Nice article by the BBC

Teamsters: A sleeping American giant now spoiling for a fight - BBC News

 

[UncleEd]

The POOR greedy drivers were cashing in 20$ per easy hour when AZ const workers sweated blood for 15.

Whose fault was that? Did the UPS
drivers vote to not pay construction
workers more?

 

[Model5]

I remember time that time well.

FedEx Ground ate UPS's lunch for many years after that.

I see FedEx Ground trucks out delivering on Sunday, since they aren't union.

FedEx Ground is also cheaper (and usually faster) than UPS.

Who do you think is going to win in the long run?

My issues with fedex may be regional. But anytime I get a shipping notification that my package is shipping via fedex I always cringe. It's always slow and takes unnecessary detors through neighboring states.

 

[venomballistics]

Would be foolish.
A little reorganizing at Amazon, who'd do anything for a buck, and UPS drivers get to say do you want fries with that for half price

 

[jimmyj]

'Where's Jimmy?'

I have been told that He is working at a convenance store with Elvis in Death Valley.

 

[LVSteve]

I have been told that He is working at a convenance store with Elvis in Death Valley.

That's right. I saw Lord Lucan at the coffee machine there one day.

 

[PeterJ]

USPS may reap benefits from a strike if it happens. I sent a fair sized box from western Pa. To Houston Texas, by regular mail. last Thursday afternoon. It got there Saturday morning. I can't get a letter there that quick, and the price was very reasonable.

 

[chief38]

Supposedly and according to the scuttle butt, Jimmy now lives in the concrete super structure of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge connecting Brooklyn to Staten Island. True or not, who knows!

 

[grover99]

UPS you never know with them. About 8 years ago had a regular driver all the time and you could almost set your watch by him. Last year or so I see him only rarely. Never know who will show up or when. Last driver who showed up was a young lady who couldn't have weighed over 100 lbs. No problem with her but I would not want my wife or daughter out doing that job. Too many nut cases out there. As for FEDX it is a total **** shoot as to when your stuff will show up or where they will leave it. One day they said they had left my order at the front desk. I have no front desk and order showed up the next day.

 

[mtgianni]

UPS has or had less than 40 % of it's unionized force as full time employees. The most are the part timers who load and unload the trucks for the drivers. They are the ones who pass of fail contracts. College age kids who hope to become drivers someday.

Read this and the other threads about work ethics with this age groups and draw your own conclusions.

After 35 years as a union pipefitter, I know very well that a strike vote does not always mean a strike is looming over head.

 

[glenwolde]

Supposedly and according to the scuttle butt, Jimmy now lives in the concrete super structure of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge connecting Brooklyn to Staten Island. True or not, who knows!

Since the bridge was completed years before his disappearance I don't see how.

 

[billwill]

Go work a day at UPS or FedEx. There is not enough Advil around to take at the end of the day.

 

[smoothshooter]

A couple of the guys at the gun club work for UPS.
Those folks earn their money.
Ever notice you don't see any old UPS drivers?
Best,
Gary

Don't know about the transfer terminal guys, but the delivery drivers in my area work their butts off. Always have. Can count on one hand the times I have seen one of them stopping to eat lunch in over 35 years.
As someone has already said, you never see any old guys doing deliveries.

 

[smoothshooter]

Since the bridge was completed years before his disappearance I don't see how.

I heard years ago that a Mob informant said under oath that Hoffa was ground into hamburger and is in a matching 3-piece set of luggage down in the Everglades.

 

[Bald1]

I heard years ago that a Mob informant said under oath that Hoffa was ground into hamburger and is in a matching 3-piece set of luggage down in the Everglades.

If that's true the gators took care of him within a day

 

[Jessie]

I wonder if it was alligator luggage? Ironic if so.

 

[Private Bailey]

UPS says it intends to hire 100,000 temporary employees for the holiday season.

 

[OLDSTER]

Maybe it'll keep me from buying stuff for a while.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Sometimes stuff gets delivered here on a PENSKE truck that is yellow.

 

[vt_shooter]

I've never seen an over-weight or an old UPS driver. They work their tails off, not to mention I would not want to be in their shoes when the temp is above a hundred and those guys are still hustling in their brutally hot trucks that of course do not have A/C.

 

[Catwrangler]

UPS

This is in response to one posters statement re: $20.00 easy dollars an hour.
My sophomore year in college I worked Christmas crunch (see below), as a driver helper on a residential route. Due to expanded volume stops were averaging 140, many with multiple packages. My job was to put packages on the front porch while the driver lines up the next delivery and return to the truck ASAP. As you're aware lots of houses are set well back from the road and company policy is not to take the truck down a driveway. The first week I'd arrive home and was only interested in putting the heating pad between my knees and seeking the analgesic properties of Tylenol and beer. My knees are killing me from jumping on and off the truck. I got better the second week and 3rd week I was all good and in shape, but the first week was hell. A lot of the drivers develop knee problems.

UPS says it intends to hire 100,000 temporary employees for the holiday season.

 

[Telecaster]

As if this isn't enough, I read an article today saying mail theft is way up. Anything that looks like a check is a juicy target.

data from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) shows that between 2018 and 2021, robberies of mail carriers nationwide more than tripled and robberies involving a gun more than quadrupled.

Lawmakers examine increase in mail theft, mail carrier robberies