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TForce | O'Brien has miscalculated UPS

LTLAnonymous said:
You're right. They're going to crush us with raw pure American CORPORATE POWER, my Brother Teamster.

On a side note, when you are making a spreadsheet for the office, do you prefer Excel or Google sheets?
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I use a free, donations appreciated, word processor app called Libre. It is compatible with Microsoft Word. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.
I also like Doxcillion Document Converter. I can open a PDF file in the word processor and edit it if needed. I use it for sample template forms. I paid a one time license fee for that.
My office is in the walkout basement of my home.
 
Razorblade said:
I use a free, donations appreciated, word processor app called Libre. It is compatible with Microsoft Word. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.
I also like Doxcillion Document Converter. I can open a PDF file in the word processor and edit it if needed. I use it for sample template forms. I paid a one time license fee for that.
My office is in the walkout basement of my home.
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Libre Office is the best. Agreed.

I install it in my Linux distros. But is corporate okay with you using that stuff?
 
Crumudgeon said:
The difference this go round is Amazon, if a vast portion of their shipments can't go out, Bezos might accelerate his own package company. He has the cash, he has the goal of that eventually anyway, point to consider.
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The question is where the workforce is going to come from? I doubt Bezos is willing to pay UPS standard wages.
 
Songremainsthesame said:
The question is where the workforce is going to come from? I doubt Bezos is willing to pay UPS standard wages.
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Contractors already pay in line with FedEx ground. The contractors make less at Amazon, though. I'm sure Bezos will loosen up the rope a little to gain some of that market share taking advantage of customers desperation.
 
Razorblade said:
So, who is the pressure on? The union whose drivers are at six figures or UPS who has offered even more money?
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I would say there’s pressure on both sides. I hope those guys at UPS have been saving up, it might take a while to wait out a company with the deep pockets of UPS. But UPS can’t wait it out forever, and I doubt the government will sit idly by allowing them to massively affect the country’s economy. Of course, with the bunch of clowns running the show in Washington, there’s no telling. I don’t have confidence in the current regime to have our nation’s economy in it’s best interest…
 
Streaker69 said:
Contractors already pay in line with FedEx ground. The contractors make less at Amazon, though. I'm sure Bezos will loosen up the rope a little to gain some of that market share taking advantage of customers desperation.
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It’s possible, but have you seen society’s current lack of interest in working?
 
My wife receives medicine overnight from UPS for pregnancy meds. If they strike, I wonder if we'll be able to continue to have a successful pregnancy? Sucks to think about!
 
3TrickPony said:
My wife receives medicine overnight from UPS for pregnancy meds. If they strike, I wonder if we'll be able to continue to have a successful pregnancy? Sucks to think about!
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Contact your pharmacy and or physician and see about alternative shipping.idk if thatll help but its definitely worth a shot
 
Capacity, wages & government have all been mentioned. Pretty sure USPS would be happy to handle volume for couple months. Christmas isn’t for awhile. Laugh if you like. Worked for a contractor for three months. They’re set up for max volume 365 and run extras on the peak times. MTs on the road, multiple times, every day.
 
LTLAnonymous said:
I might be naive and come to regret these words later on, but I actually really believe in Sean O'Brien.

The first decade and a half of my union membership was under Hoffa, and I really couldn't have cared less about being a union member.

I'm starting to feel some pride in it.
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I have to agree, so far so good. When I first joined the union I was the proudest person to be in it. Hoffa and UPS made me sick of it.
 
LTLAnonymous said:
I might be naive and come to regret these words later on, but I actually really believe in Sean O'Brien.

The first decade and a half of my union membership was under Hoffa, and I really couldn't have cared less about being a union member.

I'm starting to feel some pride in it.
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No port said:
I have to agree, so far so good. When I first joined the union I was the proudest person to be in it. Hoffa and UPS made me sick of it.
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Nothing came close to the pride I felt when Jackie was in charge! :hysterical: :hilarious:

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crazysandy said:
Looks like Sean may have been the smartest man in the room after all. From what I am reading UPS is heading back into negotiations next week. Just saying he seems to have more spine than JR.
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Give the devil their due UPS just brought themselves a new strike deadline with no specific date .
 
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