Originally Posted by
Shaggy1970
It will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of weeks. I hope that they will sign the cards, cause it will be the easy route for them and us and we can work better together in the future.
Having said that though, with all the information we have been compiling about how much revenue flying they have been doing in the past year while our guys are put out on the street and the legal precedence set years before, it will pretty easy to show the powers that be that those jobs are ours.
If we don't get the cards we will get those jobs and if they don't want to be part of our union and collective workforce by their own will, than we shouldn't want them by force. They will all be looking for employment soon that I am sure of. I hear FedEx and SWA are hiring. With UPS management stink on you, those jobs should be easy to land.
It's been too long, Shaggy. I wish you were right with your confident assertion above. What gives me doubts is that we are outgunned. We may well have supporting documentation and the facts on our side, but that may not matter. Our EB and most folks in our union think they know it all. JM actually thinks of himself on the same level as UPS Labor while negotiating our contract (just an example.) The few lawyers we have retained are laughing all the way to the bank, but they are no match for UPS Labor's in house and hired guns. The labor lawyers I've spoken to about our situation say it will be years before any resolution (my neighbor was a UPS hired lawyer who worked on the mech's contract.)
UPS will hold on to the end to these FQS guys. I'd rather see the IPA focus on getting the SCS gorilla in the cage.