Originally Posted by Lowslung

Just want to throw out that our ten year contract cycle has not helped matters. We have a long uphill battle to fight to get to where we need to be vs whittling away at the language every few years. The fact is, we threw away two golden opportunities to address scheduling language in the form of contract extensions. Now, before anyone gets their panties in a wad, those extensions were what they were, they passed by a large margin, and I a NOT proposing any kind of re-litigation. However, I hope we have learned something as a group here. UPS stands to gain extensively by prolonging contracts in any way they can. We gain very little by allowing that. Personally, I will NEVER AGAIN entertain a contract extension that denies us the opportunity to negotiate the non monetary aspects of our CBA. Fool me once…