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say that again
My guess is that the minute UPS furloughs the first IPA member without furloughing a manager, the resulting ****storm will take the company by surprise.
I suspect a lawsuit on the grounds that you can't have management doing union work. There is precedence on the IPAs side and UPS will have one hell of a fight on their hands. I know of lawyers willing to fight this for free. My sister is a professional union buster and she is amazed that UPS has gotten away with this for so many years. Furlough and that dog will be awoken. I suspect UPS doesn't want to do this. They announced a furlough hoping to get something from our contract. I have heard everything from PBS to not paying back sick time at the end of the year. The IPA came to UPS with hundreds of people willing to walk away so the bottom 300 don't get furloughed. UPS never figured that would happen. Now they are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to fix the mess they are in. PR nightmare if they don't allow guys to walk away voluntarily and instead insist on concessions and or furlough.