Originally published at: UPS challenges Teamster suit over $150,000 driver buyouts - FreightWaves
UPS says a Teamster lawsuit seeking to stop it from offering a large buyout package to parcel drivers is without merit and should be dismissed by a district court.
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UPS could cut driver wages in half and they’d fill every job the same day. Some of the most overpaid people in the country. We overpay for basically everything in order to fund these unions that provide little, if any, value. Workers are protected from abuse by laws now.
I’ve been a senior driver for 9 years and started as a seasonal or “casual” driver for 3 seasons before getting my seniority tag. Our building is already feeling the effects of the closures as we have merged woth 2 other building cosures. It basically is putting the hgher seniority drivers in our build right back down towards the bottom as the buildings closed were high seniority buildings, in that case our routes are cut daily, making us pretty much back to square 1 on having to bid on any open routes daily, I myself am not keen on it , was a huge hump to make it over the first 2 years. And being early 50s now and weight maximums steadily climbing (150lbs) now I would readily take nee offer, knowing I will probably get laid off anyhow and need to find something else. This package is huge compared to the 1st.
Wow this guy overpaid? Maybe corporate, but if you can go out with an average of 175 to 200 in the summer and at Christmas for 12 to 14 hours a day and not just leave your pkg car somewhere and call the supervisor and say you don’t want to do it anymore (happens more than you think) THEN you can call the package car drivers overpaid. You might want to learn a bit of what we drivers have to deal with boss.
Are UPS drivers overpaid, or is everyone else in the country underpaid? UPS’s compensation package is slightly less than the average wage in 1970, adjusted for inflation.