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Twenty employees were terminated Monday after their shifts — and the remaining 230 notified that they’ll be canned as soon as replacements are trained, a company spokesman said.
I have nothing specific against unions but if UPS is able to quickly train replacements and suffer no impact to their business, it just means the unions are artificially protecting workers with the threat of walkouts. Can you imagine if IT workers were allowed to unionize? Sure, you can outsource and hire cheaper people from India but can a business survive if all of us walked out at once?
some fedex employees are even classified as indep. contractors.
IIRC those mainly are FedEx ground employees. IIRC in some areas of the USA FedEx Ground routes are bided out to drivers that are independent contractors.
I have nothing specific against unions but if UPS is able to quickly train replacements and suffer no impact to their business, it just means the unions are artificially protecting workers with the threat of walkouts.
Shouldn't they also be training them for an evolving world so that they do not become redundant? Rather than just argue with management to keep them onboard even though they no longer have the skillset necessary for the business to develop efficiently?
The company used to be known for it's military style way of business. That style has more or less gone by the way side and they use more mafia like tactics. ... I saw a big change in how employees were treated after the strike.
Workers were treated like crap decades ago, when I worked there for a spell. UPS bragged that all its management started as workers, but it looked like only the biggest a-holes got promoted. One night, a loader got fired for eating an orange from a busted box. Place almost exploded. Somehow, it didn't, but the next night 70,000 packages got mis-sorted! No one else got canned after that.
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Originally Posted by Adhom
if UPS is able to quickly train replacements and suffer no impact to their business, it just means the unions are artificially protecting workers
Some could argue the converse: if all the bosses were fired, the place could run itself!
IIRC those mainly are FedEx ground employees. IIRC in some areas of the USA FedEx Ground routes are bided out to drivers that are independent contractors.
I know that is the case with the tractor trailer drivers. Some guy in Seattle wanted to hire me for one of his runs. UPS is a much stronger job. Pension. OT after 8. Good hourly wage.
UPS workers better pick their battles more carefully.
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