UPGF4IBT said:Well...when I count the number of posters here that seem to be for union representation, and the ones that are not...I don't quite see how you deduced that statement?
Look,its different strokes for different folks. I'm not about to quit and start over elsewhere at the bottom...but if I had known years ago how much better it is working at Yellow...I would have went there and sucked it up for a few years not working a day or 2 every so often. But Overnite needed a road driver...how could I turn down a road bid right at the start? But my decision on where I work should not hinder my interest in being represented.
I want regular pay increases. I want more paid time off and vacation...ALOT MORE!!! I want sick days from the first day im sick, NOT the 3rd!!! I want to hit top pay in less than 20 yrs!!!
So sorry buddy...but I'll surrender my radio and my 15-way adjustable seat to get some more downtime and a better sense of security...It's the work like dog/get treated like a dog mentallity you and your buddies posess that makes attaining these outright fair requests impossible! So do me a favor sir...QUIT UPGF AND GO WORK FOR SWIFT!
You are perfectly right. You can stay here for twenty years hoping UPSF will go union. It is your right. You can for the next twenty years fight for better pay and benefits. You can fight for the way our delay pay is and sick leave.
It is your right! But all I ask is that you be truthful and realistic. You say you want regular pay increases. I've been here 24 years and never missed a pay increase.
Most the time 50 cents city and .0125 for the road. By the way if we do go union I hope you will be fighting for higher raises.
I have found if a person here gets treated as you put it like a dog he is usually not work his salt. They have to really push him to get half the production of another driver.
Not saying that applies to you. Overnite has been a good company and good to me. I will always defend its memory.
As far as UPSF time will tell.