UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized a Strike

Re:UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized... by kazen44 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:32PM (#17249751)

This does not matter to the workers if they do not get any share of the increase in bussiness.

They have very little to lose while doing a strike.

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Re:UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized... by sparrish on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:41PM (#17249847)

In 1997, the 15-day strike cost 15k UPS jobs.

For the drivers, that is a lot to lose.

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Re:UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized... by kevinh on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:56PM (#17249975)

The stakes are what give both the union and the business leverage in the negotiations.

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Re:UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized... by spectra72 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:09PM (#17250639)

I was working for UPS during that strike. We didn't lose a lot of drivers from what I recall because they had relatively nice hourly wages to come back to and could weather the storm a bit.

We lost almost the entire load/unload staff though. The grunts in the truck at 12am unloading semi-truck after semi-truck worth of boxes. They were only getting ~$8/hr and couldn't afford to be out for 2 weeks. Out of 12 guys on the team I supervised I think 2 came back.

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Re:UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized... by rwcarlsen on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:42PM (#17249853)

Short term it might not affect them, but long term it could reduce the number of employees UPS needs, and they might not be able to get hired on at FedEx.

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