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UPS Fires 250 Employees For Staging A 90-Minute Protest To Defend Co-Worker
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Posted on 04/03/2014 3:01:46 PM PDT by matt04

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Good for UPS. The employees walked off the job. They deserve to get fired.
1 posted on 04/03/2014 3:01:46 PM PDT by matt04
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Ninety minutes? Why did UPS wait so long?


2 posted on 04/03/2014 3:03:53 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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“Good for UPS. The employees walked off the job. They deserve to get fired. “

I’d say this is symptomatic if a systemic management problem. Somebody should take notice. It’s really difficult to get 250 people to come to your aid. Some Ting Wong. It will probably surface again, sooner rather than later.


3 posted on 04/03/2014 3:04:04 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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Good hardworking employees who... Stopped working.... They deserved to be fired


4 posted on 04/03/2014 3:04:09 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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Wildcat strikes are not authorized by contract. They formed a wildcat strike..the union cant back them, although they might try, and they get the axe. End of Story.


5 posted on 04/03/2014 3:05:01 PM PDT by crz
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You're fired! But you can't leave until you train your replacement. Ha. Wouldn't want to be receiving packages from those guys.
6 posted on 04/03/2014 3:05:13 PM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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For that reason, strikes are not an approved method of conflict resolution in UPS' contract with the union, he said.

Bust a deal, lose your wheels.

7 posted on 04/03/2014 3:05:22 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Operating out of weakness? Imagine if he was working from a position of strength!)
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They came to the "aid" of their union activist, pro'ly told there'd be no consequences. Broke their contract. Let ’em go buy a route from FedEx.
8 posted on 04/03/2014 3:07:38 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Operating out of weakness? Imagine if he was working from a position of strength!)
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To: matt04
UPS Fires 250 Employees For Staging A 90-Minute Protest To Defend Co-Worker


9 posted on 04/03/2014 3:09:21 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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It’s interesting to be living in such an “employees’ rights” culture in an economy that makes employees very expendable.


10 posted on 04/03/2014 3:21:20 PM PDT by MNDude
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With so many people out of work, no union should be able to hold a company hostage. Hiring should be open to everyone who qualifies. Surely some company would have the guts to just stop dealing with unions.


11 posted on 04/03/2014 3:22:03 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Gen.Blather
There are established procedures to address a grievance. One does not get fired for following established procedure in a union shop. Too bad there are no details about the firing.

Once an employee IS fired, there is a proper way to try and get his/her job back. With a very labor friendly NLRB right now, I am very curious as to why the employees resorted to an illegal wildcat strike instead of the union working through proper channels. I do suspect a perhaps somewhat charismatic “leader” and a bunch of hot heads in the shop.

12 posted on 04/03/2014 3:22:14 PM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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Domenick DeDomenico, 40, was in a coma for 10 days after getting hit by a car last year while delivering packages for UPS,” the Daily News’ Ginger Adams Otis reported. “He fought back from serious brain injuries and needed a year of speech and physical therapy.”

You have experienced what few on earth experience

It should inform you that God has taken care of you and you should fear not, what man can do to you.

Move on to your dream.


13 posted on 04/03/2014 3:23:05 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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There was a time when I was a card carrying “corporatist” meaning anything that corporate (global) wanted I supported.

Those days are gone. I’m conservative now, meaning I support the USA Constitution and the intended version of Bill of Rights (not as parsed by the elites), secure borders, ethics, fairness, and a government by and of “we the people” and not by “we the bundlers, oligarchs, CEOs and unions” who can buy Congress with the chump change using other people’s money.

I don’t support overpaid hired hand bankers and corporate CEOs unless the shareholders who take the risk have absolute final say on governance and compensation, and taxpayers on bailouts, and NOT the beholden bought and paid for members of Congress on both sides that infest our Capitol.

The bottom line is I support the need to advance policies that make America what we once were, and not as a country indebted to oligarchs that benefit only elitists.


14 posted on 04/03/2014 3:23:54 PM PDT by apoliticalone
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So you’re a communist?


15 posted on 04/03/2014 3:26:07 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: matt04
I saw this in Arkansas. Plant workers wanted to organize and strike. CEO/Owner stand on back of truck with bullhorn, "Anyone not in the building at 1PM is fired. All exits are locked except for front entrance, where I will be with HR".

An hour went by, CEO locked the doors at 1PM, fired everyone (200+ people). Thank goodness we live in a right to work state. Owner later closed plant and moved to Texas.

16 posted on 04/03/2014 3:26:50 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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“You’re fired! But you can’t leave until you train your replacement.”

That’s exactly how it played out when NYC’s financial district was outsourced to Asia a few years ago (when Occupy Wall Street was born); those who wouldn’t train the Asian coolies replacing them didn’t receive severance.

Those jobs are never coming back...


17 posted on 04/03/2014 3:32:23 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: matt04

I don’t like FedEx, but for the next few weeks I would be using them until the replacements take over...


18 posted on 04/03/2014 3:39:01 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Gen.Blather
I’d say this is symptomatic if a systemic management problem.

I'll tell you what a management problem is: They fired 230 people, but they're still working until they train their replacements. Do you see any potential for something going wrong there?

19 posted on 04/03/2014 3:42:08 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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Unions suck pond water ....worthless blackmailers IMO.


20 posted on 04/03/2014 3:45:32 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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