Posted on 04/03/2014 7:47:30 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
UPS is firing 250 Queens drivers for walking off the job during a 90-minute protest in February.
The company dismissed 20 of the workers after their shifts Monday and issued notices of termination to another 230 employees, notifying them that they will be fired once the company has trained their replacements, UPS spokesman Steve Gaut told Business Insider.
The workers were protesting the dismissal of long-time employee and union activist Jairo Reyes, who was fired over an hours dispute, according to Gaut. The New York Daily News first reported on the firings.
The local branch of the Teamsters union that represents the dismissed workers has described the firings as "a heartless attack on drivers and their families."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ups-fires-250-employees-2014-4#ixzz2xpo4wYtB
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Were they fired for a protest, as the headline says, or were they fired for walking off their job to attend the protest?
Firing union workers is almost always a good thing
This is a stupid move. They should just be fired.
No one at the Teamsters Union corporate offices will be losing their jobs though.
They'll be OK.
Their contract probably prohibits ‘wildcat’ strikes.......................
Now you talk about heavy handed. Since these guys are already in a union, where were they when the stuff was coming down with this Jairo guy? Don’t you think they
should have been there to mediate any dispute and resolve
any escalation of protest. I am not a big union supporter, but in his case the workers are right. But where was the union before all this got out of hand?
Did Doug Heffernan get fired?
a heartless attack, eh? Is this a job or is it charity??????
They broke the contract, they paid the penalty.................
I'd say this deserves a MISLEADING HEADLINE ALERT. Waking off the job is a little more than simply protesting.
>>> The workers were protesting the dismissal of long-time employee and union activist Jairo Reyes, who was fired over an hours dispute, .....
So all 250 UPS drivers/employees protested against the firing of said employee, but not the ‘hours’ dispute, if I get this straight?
That’ll teach the next bunch of UPS workers over ‘walking off the job’.
It seems the union workers first made a “heartless attack” on the corporation by walking off their jobs in protest. Now they no longer suffer from “job lock” and can walk around protesting all they want. Boo Hoo!
yup, may be a lot of misplaced packages this week . .
big brown ...
Expect hundreds of sabotaged UPS trucks in the coming weeks...
The first guy was fired over an “hours dispute”.
What you wanna bet he was falsifying his timesheets?
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UPS employs 1,400 workers at the Maspeth distribution center where the strike occurred on Feb. 26.
“When a group of 250 employees walk out for 90 minutes it is a significant disruption in the delivery of parcels or packages to customers on that day,” Gaut said. “We get penalties to customers if we don’t deliver on time.”
For that reason, strikes are not an approved method of conflict resolution in UPS’ contract with the union, he said.
The local branch of the Teamsters union that represents the dismissed workers has described the firings as “a heartless attack on drivers and their families.”
“The company fired a group of drivers to try to divide us, create panic, or try to get Local 804 to cave in and sell out. That is not going to happen,” the union wrote on its website.
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The King of Queens.
So all 250 UPS drivers/employees protested against the firing of said employee, but not the ‘hours’ dispute, if I get this straight?
Drivers are well paid but the bottom rungs at UPS are the pits. I did it for a summer. 3 1/2 hour shift unloading trucks for peanuts. There is no way to do the job safely in the time allotted when the packages are heavy.
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