Posted on 04/03/2014 3:01:46 PM PDT by matt04
UPS is firing 250 Queens, N.Y., 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 longtime 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.
Local politicians are threatening to cancel city contracts that give UPS millions of dollars in breaks on parking fines.
"They took a grievance with one employee and turned it into notices of termination with 250 workers," New York City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer told The Queens Courier. "That’s outrageous. These are good, hardworking employees who have a contract for UPS. To try and break this contract, break this union, is something that is unacceptable and we can’t tolerate."
UPS fired back that it might need to terminate additional employees if the city alters its contract.
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Employers who think of their employees as all deadwood eventually become bankrupt employers. You know, the kind run by the green-eyeshade guys.
It's exactly why so much biz has dumped their employees. Make um buy back into it...A lose lose for the employees, a big win win for big corp...
If they can't off shore to low wage foreign worker land, go independent contractors, franchises etc., or just hire illegal aliens like so many other business, etc.
UPS, eventually goes the same way...They'll dump them all eventually.
Bet the rent.
The funniest part of this story is UPS telling the city council members that if they lose city business MORE people will lose their jobs.
And that's magnitudes worse than private sector unions, since with big gov, we not only pay their fat salaries, gold plated pension, but all their union fees too...
It's a brutal gang bang of the private sector.
that was not much of a rebuttal. Lol.
I have better things to do. :)
The antistrike clause was violated. Break the contract, the contract is gone.
Holder will be involved
UPS will cease delivery to te White house, doj and dept of labor
“Those jobs are never coming back..”
Tough shit, nobody is entitled to “jobs”. Prove you are worth and you will not be fired. Being fired means somebody can do business without you... and perform even better.
“Grossly overpaid is not good. Grossly underpaid is far worse. “
Let me guess.. you want the gubmint define what it means to be over or under paid.
How about this: if they think they are underpaid, why not prove they deserve more? If you can get fired, you have proven that you are expendable.
Lol... but I have a feeling that these 250 losers will be on gubmint dole for years to come.
If you believe that, you'll believe anything..
I have seen Teamsters fired before for this exact thing in my old company. The 250 number however makes this case likely to not be so similar.
If the number were a dozen or so it might fly, but not ten dozen. There will be a compromise with likely just few ringleaders expunged.
Hope they all do get the boot though, I despise those thugs.
“Prove you are worth and you will not be fired. Being fired means somebody can do business without you... and perform even better.”
You must mean the $50 mil a year hired hand CEO that has a contract that protects him/her from being fired for gross incompetence and major shareholder loss. Carly Fiorina comes to mind immediately. Every CEO should be an “at will” employee subject to an annual vote from shareholders and not cronies on the BOD.
As long as CEOs are making mega dollars with special gold plated diamond encrusted contracts that protect them from everything and while rewarding incompetence, why are we hammering average Joes looking for a little security too? I don’t have a problem with private sector unions. I do with public unions because they are used by politicians against taxpayers. In the construction industry the unions with their experience and OJT actually provide an element of proficiency. You don’t see buildings in the USA collapsing like you do in third world countries.
What we need is a nation with fewer oligarchs and a stronger middle class that will serve to politically protect all of our rights against tyrants. Don’t depend on oligarchs to protect your rights. They’d take your 2nd Amendment rights in an instant.
“Every CEO should be an “at will” employee subject to an annual vote from shareholders and not cronies on the BOD.”
Who do you think elects the “cronies on the BOD”? Besides, CEOs are worth their value or else the companies would not be worth billions (increasing stockholders’ value).
“Tough shit, nobody is entitled to “jobs”. Prove you are worth and you will not be fired. Being fired means somebody can do business without you... and perform even better.”
I agree nobody is “entitled” to jobs; to not even have them available is another story. In my area good jobs have been chased away because much of the world will work for less than what one needs to live on in the northeastern US. Quality of work has become irrelevant, as companies are willing to pay 50% of a good worker’s pay to get someone who can do 50% of the work (and the consumer pays for it in horrible service). Many young people today can’t find entry-level jobs because many of them require fluency in Spanish, and they are also being squeezed by people falling out of the middle class to take them. Public and unionized employees are the only ones protected from the widespread age discrimination masked as “re-organizations” that have left much of the middle class reeling, many of them never to earn as much ever again.
I started delivering newspapers before I was a teenager, and have been continuously employed for the 30+ years since; I understand what makes an employee valuable, and I also understand many of those opportunities to demonstrate that are gone. Instead of smugly pointing out the generalized shortcomings of the unemployed, I understand that desperate people cast desperate votes - and we who ARE working pay for those decisions.
Not a smart move. How would you like your parcels delivered by someone with no job to lose?
...geez too.
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