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Strategies & Market Trends : UPS Strike
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To: Richard Vaughn who wrote (13)8/12/1997 1:41:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls   of 62
 
I don't think UPS is bad company I just think it is being suicidal in this battle, obviously employee's will be hurt, but I guess it is management unwillingness to negotiate that seems stupid to me.

To give in to the Teamsters would be stupid. In one story I read UPS said that the union's proposal would cost it twice its annual profit. I'd think that would be a very good reason to draw a line in the sand and stick to it.

The Teamsters don't care about their members. They care about power and money. They see this as a chance to show they have power by bringing the world's largest shipper to its knees. This increases their chances of recruiting new members and puts the fear of God into any business they deal with.

If the Teamsters did care about their members and their members' opinions then why not present the proposal for a vote as UPS has asked? UPS has said that if the proposal is defeated then they'd rethink their position. Yes, $55 per week strike benefits don't go very far and employees will be hurt. Whose fault is that? The company being struck and which is losing millions of dollars, or the union and its leadership which won't even let their members vote on the proposal?

If I controlled UPS either the workers would get a chance to vote on the current proposal or hell would freeze over before I'd even talk to the union again.

Oh, BTW, my father was in the Laborer's Union and I attended Indiana State on a Union scholorship so I am sympathetic to unions, but the Teamsters are about the worst and most corrupt of the lot. Unskilled labor needs unions. Skilled labor does not. Why are there Pilot's Unions?
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