Originally Posted by
rollndadice
A question for the people at UPS. I remember several years ago that UPS mgmt. threatened/ started to furlough 100 pilots. What did your union do to stop that? Was their an overtime ban/stop/self stop? ABX is furloughing and overtime is so rampant that we have many guys working if not every day almost every day each month and selling back their vacation. It is not right that people are making huge amounts of cash while guys are being furloughed. Thanks!
We started a Job Protection Program. No opentime p/u, no JA availability, no trip trades to increase credit. There were a few (less than 5%) that blew it off, but bye and large, we stuck together. The furlough was cancelledand of course, OOPs manglement said something about changing economic climate, blah, blah. My theory is that whole thing was a trial balloon to see what we would do. Hope that answers your question. If not, maybe someone with more inside knowledge can help.
TH1