[ArtDodger]

Were they fired for a protest, as the headline says, or were they fired for walking off their job to attend the protest?

[from occupied ga]

Firing union workers is almost always a good thing

[FatherofFive]

notifying them that they will be fired once the company has trained their replacements

This is a stupid move. They should just be fired.

[wideawake]

Plenty of guys lined up behind them to take those jobs.

No one at the Teamsters Union corporate offices will be losing their jobs though.

They'll be OK.

[Red Badger]

Their contract probably prohibits ‘wildcat’ strikes.......................

[brooklyn dave]

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?

[Homer1]

Did Doug Heffernan get fired?

[Shimmer1]

a heartless attack, eh? Is this a job or is it charity??????

[Red Badger]

For that reason, strikes are not an approved method of conflict resolution in UPS' contract with the union, he said.

They broke the contract, they paid the penalty.................

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> 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’.

[Moltke]

Expect hundreds of sabotaged UPS trucks in the coming weeks...

[MrB]

The first guy was fired over an “hours dispute”.
What you wanna bet he was falsifying his timesheets?

[Las Vegas Dave]

< snip >

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.

< /snip >

[Ted Grant]

The King of Queens.

[Seattle Conservative]

Don’t know anything about NY (I’m guess it is not a right-to-work state, but don’t know) or UPS. Do you know if all the new workers will be required to join the Teamsters Union, too? If not, I see that as a plus.

[latina4dubya]

UPS fired back that it might need to terminate additional employees if the city alters its contract.

good on them :)

[IronJack]

Expect much thuggery.

[V_TWIN]

“union activist Jairo Reyes”

The EEO lawsuit is forthcoming.

[SaxxonWoods]

Ronald Reagan is smiling...

[cicero2k]

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 flip side is that there will be 250 new workers and their families provided with opportunity and a future.

Unexpected Happens.