This is why AStar fights for thier jobs.
07-26-2008, 01:15 PM
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This is why AStar fights for thier jobs.
If we can affect one person to feel and react this way, how many have our voices touched that we don't know about. Please read.
FAJ
Wilmington News Journal story
UPS engineer joins picketing, quits
GARY HUFFENBERGER
Staff Writer
When employees conduct informational picketing, they hope to raise public awareness of their workplace problems and send a message to the employer.
But a Thursday march involving about 50 ASTAR Air Cargo pilots outside UPS’s Atlanta headquarters reached different eyes: A UPS software engineer on lunch decided to join the protest and, after leaving the picket line, resigned on the spot when approached back at work by two security workers and two Human Resources staffers.
Tony Bordoli said by phone Friday he came upon the picketing while walking with a friend, and was touched when he saw a big sign on a vehicle that said the proposed UPS-DHL deal could devastate 10,000 families.
“It affected me and there was something I knew that I could do about it, so I did. And I took a stance against an unethical action by my company. It’s probably not going to change things. I know I’m one person but it may slow it down,” Bordoli mused.
Bordoli said his work was not related to the proposed contract, but that as a UPS software engineer in a financial office, he created programs that produced detailed analysis reports regarding which workers should have their hours cut.
“I just felt I was really being used as a tool to devastate families and communities, and it was just simple. I mean, how could I not put the two together? I’m not going to be used as a tool to devastate families and communities anymore. I can’t conscientiously be a part of that,” said the 36-year-old Bordoli, who had worked at UPS for 10-plus years.
“In a way, the picketing indirectly woke me up,” he feels.
He had been working on his current project for the past four months, said Bordoli, and had gotten to the “second plot point, if you will.”
“It’s a big burden off my mind and off my back,” he said Friday concerning his decision to quit UPS. “Because I was feeling very conflicted with this particular project to begin with.”
On Thursday evening, after joining the ranks of the unemployed, Bordoli did some research on the DHL-UPS deal and about the picketing ASTAR pilots in an attempt “to get more educated in what exactly I had chosen to do,” he chuckled.
“And that’s when I was reassured that I was making the right decision,” he said.
“This was by no means premeditated. I just went by my conscience when I saw the picketing, and the information of the families being devastated. It dawned on me that what I was doing by my actions, you know by my involvement, I wasn’t that far from that, you understand.”
Bordoli said it may sound like a rash act and he admitted he did “get a little harshness this morning from my father.”
“This time, I’ll pick a better company,” Bordoli said. “One that actually exercises proper social responsibility.”
When he joined the picketing with the pilots, all in their pilots uniform, the picketers started asking him who he worked for?
“I said UPS, and everyone, it was like a cheer moment,” he said.
Later he told Human Resources staff and security in the stairwell that he was tendering his resignation, and let fall his UPS identification badge to the floor in protest.
“I wish the cause well, because I have a family. You know, my family won’t be devastated from this because in the Atlanta area, I have marketable enough skills to quickly recover. So, I’m not worried about myself in particular. But I know things in our breadbasket up in Ohio, those guys are going through a lot more than I am. I’m actually fortunate,” said Bordoli.
UPS spokesman Norman Black said Friday it is company policy not to publicly discuss individual personnel matters.
FAJ
Wilmington News Journal story
UPS engineer joins picketing, quits
GARY HUFFENBERGER
Staff Writer
When employees conduct informational picketing, they hope to raise public awareness of their workplace problems and send a message to the employer.
But a Thursday march involving about 50 ASTAR Air Cargo pilots outside UPS’s Atlanta headquarters reached different eyes: A UPS software engineer on lunch decided to join the protest and, after leaving the picket line, resigned on the spot when approached back at work by two security workers and two Human Resources staffers.
Tony Bordoli said by phone Friday he came upon the picketing while walking with a friend, and was touched when he saw a big sign on a vehicle that said the proposed UPS-DHL deal could devastate 10,000 families.
“It affected me and there was something I knew that I could do about it, so I did. And I took a stance against an unethical action by my company. It’s probably not going to change things. I know I’m one person but it may slow it down,” Bordoli mused.
Bordoli said his work was not related to the proposed contract, but that as a UPS software engineer in a financial office, he created programs that produced detailed analysis reports regarding which workers should have their hours cut.
“I just felt I was really being used as a tool to devastate families and communities, and it was just simple. I mean, how could I not put the two together? I’m not going to be used as a tool to devastate families and communities anymore. I can’t conscientiously be a part of that,” said the 36-year-old Bordoli, who had worked at UPS for 10-plus years.
“In a way, the picketing indirectly woke me up,” he feels.
He had been working on his current project for the past four months, said Bordoli, and had gotten to the “second plot point, if you will.”
“It’s a big burden off my mind and off my back,” he said Friday concerning his decision to quit UPS. “Because I was feeling very conflicted with this particular project to begin with.”
On Thursday evening, after joining the ranks of the unemployed, Bordoli did some research on the DHL-UPS deal and about the picketing ASTAR pilots in an attempt “to get more educated in what exactly I had chosen to do,” he chuckled.
“And that’s when I was reassured that I was making the right decision,” he said.
“This was by no means premeditated. I just went by my conscience when I saw the picketing, and the information of the families being devastated. It dawned on me that what I was doing by my actions, you know by my involvement, I wasn’t that far from that, you understand.”
Bordoli said it may sound like a rash act and he admitted he did “get a little harshness this morning from my father.”
“This time, I’ll pick a better company,” Bordoli said. “One that actually exercises proper social responsibility.”
When he joined the picketing with the pilots, all in their pilots uniform, the picketers started asking him who he worked for?
“I said UPS, and everyone, it was like a cheer moment,” he said.
Later he told Human Resources staff and security in the stairwell that he was tendering his resignation, and let fall his UPS identification badge to the floor in protest.
“I wish the cause well, because I have a family. You know, my family won’t be devastated from this because in the Atlanta area, I have marketable enough skills to quickly recover. So, I’m not worried about myself in particular. But I know things in our breadbasket up in Ohio, those guys are going through a lot more than I am. I’m actually fortunate,” said Bordoli.
UPS spokesman Norman Black said Friday it is company policy not to publicly discuss individual personnel matters.
07-26-2008, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by nightrider
If only the first 2100 ups pilots would show their unity by following suit.
Yeah, I'll get right on that one. A lot of you guys are pathetic. You are being very similar to the USAir east pilots. You'd rather see everyone miserable since you got a bad break. UPS is not at fault here in any way. WHat do you expect? My company is doing smart business and you are asking me to resign? I predict the backlash you receive will make you regret some of the things you all are doing.
07-26-2008, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by nightrider
If only the first 2100 ups pilots would show their unity by following suit.
Why would UPS pilots be "showing unity" by resigning to prevent this deal from happening?
Should this deal happen, we will have to hire many more pilots here at UPS. Seems like a good thing for the UPS pilot group.
If the deal doesn't happen, DHL USA goes out of business and many thousands of jobs will be lost.
The US economy NEEDS this deal to happen and I think it probably will happen for the sake of the economy.
07-26-2008, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by L'il J.Seinfeld
A lot of you guys are pathetic. You are being very similar to the USAir east pilots. You'd rather see everyone miserable since you got a bad break. UPS is not at fault here in any way. WHat do you expect? My company is doing smart business and you are asking me to resign? I predict the backlash you receive will make you regret some of the things you all are doing.
well said.
They can fight for their future all they want, but expect people to quit on their jobs to save theirs?
Downright silly.
07-26-2008, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by L'il J.Seinfeld
Yeah, I'll get right on that one. A lot of you guys are pathetic. You are being very similar to the USAir east pilots. You'd rather see everyone miserable since you got a bad break. UPS is not at fault here in any way. WHat do you expect? My company is doing smart business and you are asking me to resign? I predict the backlash you receive will make you regret some of the things you all are doing.
07-27-2008, 01:11 AM
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I realize this is an “Airline pilot forum,” but sometimes we don’t realize how many people besides ourselves are affected by our overall company actions. I grew up and did a majority of my flight training in the Wilmington area. The city and the surrounding counties are highly reliant on the amount of jobs that ABX/DHL provides. If or rather when this deal goes through it will devastate a substantial portion of the economy in southwestern Ohio. One of my good friends from high school still works on the ramp there, and both of his parents are also employed there. That’s an entire family not just the bread winning pilot daddy. Were not talking about ten year captains that have enough money to survive for awhile and move on to fly somewhere else. I’m talking about people that are making just enough to get by packing the planes on the night shift. These people are a month or two away from adding another foreclosure, to the already dwindling housing market. Not to mention the other area businesses that will be affected by the overall loss of customers. It is hard to tell how far the shockwave will go from the airport. It is really depressing to go home and see signs in so many yards of people that say A Proud ABX employee lives here because it may be only a matter of time until the entire area is a ghost town. I hope that when you get that extra flying at UPS when you fly over Wilmington you can look down at and realize that you destroyed so many lives.
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