1. | Jul 2, 2013

I'm a fairly new emlypoee, having worked just over a year as a part-timer in our local HUB. So I'm not yet very knowledgeable about UPS/Teamster politics and history. But I've been told that emlypoees once started at about $14 or $15 an hour, back in the mid-'80s or '90's, I believe.If true, that's astounding. Traditionally, people's salaries increase at least incrementally just to keep pace with the rising cost of living. Yet the Teamsters apparently let UPS slash our salaries by $4-5 an hour, and starting wages have been frozen at $8.50 since _________ (Can anyone fill in the blank?)They've apparently been frozen for at least the last five years, with another year left in the current contract. And we're now presented with a five-year contract, right? So we're talking about wages frozen at an insulting $8.50 for over a decade! With our economy on the skids, will new emlypoees' even be able to afford the cost of gas in 2012?Which raises another question: Why are we signing SIX- and FIVE-year contracts? Is that the norm? If we scr*w up we'll be stuck with this contract for one helluva long time.I actually enjoy my job, to some extent, and I get along with the supervisors just fine. I'm just tired of being exploited by UPS, and I'm becoming angrier at the Teamsters every day. International "Brotherhood," my a*s.

2. | Jun 25, 2013

Brilliance for free; your parents must be a sweetheart and a cretfieid genius.