Originally published at: UPS meets deadline for retrofitting delivery vans with air conditioning - FreightWaves
Under pressure from the Teamsters, UPS has retrofitted 2,000 package cars with air conditioning and the union says its enforcement campaign is forcing company compliance across many areas of their labor contract.
So they thought it better to retrofit trucks in Virginia instead of those in Texas and Louisiana where the true heat is? Looks like more like an PR stunt to me. The driver that delivers to my house has van that is barely road legal and he suffers worse heat here in Louisiana than Virginia will ever see. This is what you get with union leadership.
Very scab thing to say. You think Non-union is the way to go? No benefits, no rights, just piggybacking and temping your way through life? Unions are the reason workers can strike for things like this, it’s not on the company.. it’s on the union members and heads to organize and defeat it. With attitudes like yours, it’s no wonder they’re still struggling.
I worked for a non-union papermill for 40 years. Our wages were better than the national average for all the paper mills. We also had better benefits. Like I said, I have retired and make just as much with my pension as I did before I retired. The company I worked for has union mills that are constantly driving their costs up and getting shut down when they can’t compete. They figured out with our concept that it was better to pay more and get employee engagement at the mill that it benefitted the company more. Now more mills are wanting to go non-union. The union is just another overhead cost for the company that only benefits the lazy non productive employee. You need to learn that the union is not always out for your benefit. You’re just another ■■■■■■ to the system.
I’m not anti-unuon (private sector) & I have nothing but good things to say about the 100s of drivers I’ve interacted w/over decades of shipping, but the teamsters will eventually drive UPS out of business. They now know UPS management won’t endure a strike & so next contract negotiations will be even more emboldened.