How about no teamsters?
Drones and driverless trucks don’t pay union dues. This is the ONLY thing the Teamster bosses care about. In thirty years as a Teamster I saw wages cut time and time again, benefits traded off for new hires. Individual members pay cut to bring on more dues paying bodies.
$15,000 in dues and I didn’t even get a tshirt from these bloodsuckers.
Fifty years ago, this might have worked. It doesn’t work with FedEx providing ample competition.
These Useless Unions Bosses are like those trying to keep the Horse and Buggy relevant .
Useless Unions are putting a finger in the Dam .
Ups will be gone soon at this rate.
Someday, kids will ask their dads “What are unions?”
LOL. Either that or the driverless trucks need to go at 20 MPH and stop once every two hours for a 30 minute break.
Those people are stuck on stupid.
Do you need a steady flow of a critical drug? I do.
Do you think there’s a chance of a strike in this? I do.
Does your pharmacy get shipments via UPS? Mine does.
Might not hurt to lay up a bit of a backup on the shelf.
A ninety-day backup supply sounds about right.
Be sure to FIFO your stock...
I fail to see how a driverless truck could take out a package, walk up to your door and ring the bell, and get your signature. Final delivery is one area where human intelligence is still needed.
It upsets me to find myself on the same side of an issue with the “teemsters” union - albeit for different reasons.
I am fundamentally opposed to “self-driving” vehicles being used on our public roads - for reasons of safety and personal freedom, though, not because I am worried about some greedy union members losing their jobs.
That’s like demanding to stick with horses when the automobile industry is coming in.
The Union can only hold off for so long.
exactly - and the dirty little secret of unions is over the long term, the reduced productivity equals lower wages. That’s why every company with powerful unions declines over time.
Use the U.S. Postal Service for the “last mile.”
It works for Amazon because the USPS is losing money on every delivery.
Teamsters can go pound sand and devote their energy to finding Jimmy Hoffa.
FedEx isn’t union. They’re doing just fine. What you’ll see, is shippers passing on shipping via UPS and going FedEx or some other shipper.
Once ago, Teamsters were Mule Skinner’s. They were a hard working, hard drinking, hard fighting, hard mule cussing, all American group of men, were that, they were so, again.
If driverless trucks and drones can be made to be workable and economical, then this demand by the Teamsters will only mean the end of UPS. If UPS cannot use them, then a new startup will and drive UPS out of business.
Actually I think this may be a first—I agree with them!
The whole driverless, connected-vehicle movement is one of statist control.
BFL
I wonder if the Teamsters union is demanding a few thousand jobs for blacksmiths.