$25 an hour starting wage for UPS Part timers

[CamiloCienfuegos]

Where I work there has been rumblings of getting $25 an hour starting pay for part timers.

This is a joke right?

A quick Google search about the history of part time pay is all you need to do to see this will never happen no matter who is negotiating the contract, even the great Ron Carey.

Here is the history of part time starting wages at UPS:

1993: Ron Carey negotiates NO increase to the starting wage for part timers as the rate stays at $8 an hour. The same rate it has been since 1982.

1997: Despite what was considered a successful strike, Ron Carey only negotiates a starting wage of $8.50 an hour for part timers, a 50 cent increase even though the starting wage had been $8 an hour for 15 years.

2002: Like Carey, Hoffa/Hall negotiate only a 50 cent increase to starting pay (after 90 days) for part timers as the rate goes to $9 an hour.

2008: Hoffa/Hall negotiate a starting rate of pay for part timers of $10.50 an hour.

2013: Hoffa/Hall negotiate a 50 cent raise for new part timers as the starting rate of pay goes to $11 an hour.

2018: Hoffa/Hall negotiate a $2 increase to the starting rate for part timers as the rate goes to $13 an hour. Over the lifetime of the contract, starting part time wages will rise to $15.50 an hour by 2023.

So in the last 41 years (1982-2023) starting wages for part-timers at UPS have risen from $8 an hour to $15.50, an increase of $7.50.



Now there are folks at my hub saying we are going to get a $10 an hour increase to the starting rate in just one year when it took 41 years to get $7.50 an hour??? GTFOH!!!



WTF are these people smoking?

I agree that Part timers are underpaid and disrespected and deserve a raise, but why blow smoke up our ass?
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[Hiway80]

A quick Google search is all you need right? Next time you might want to talk to some Teamsters at your "hub". They might remind you of the twenty thousand full-time jobs created in the nineties.

Your quick google analysis doesn't take inflation, logistics changes, market growth, unemployment or any thing else into consideration.

There's one sure way to not get what your worth and that's to not demand it. Quit talking to your supervisors about the contract and maybe find a Teamster.

[CamiloCienfuegos]

[DanaCos]

[Faust]

2013 was more concessionary than 2018. How about that failing pension fund waiting for a government bailout?

[Barry455]

I thought this thread was about a $25 starting rate.

What' s the matter Camilo is $25 an hour too heavy a lift for the big talking wee man?

[CamiloCienfuegos]

[CamiloCienfuegos]

[UPS909Strong]

We will never get a 25 starting rate.

[Guest]

sign the petition if you support the demand! you may be pleasantly surprised

https://www.upsteamstersunited.org/pt-petition?fbclid=IwAR37xu3X872DBbr3VTVteibDBka8CyEQ ***naOnC_HRnwG5p7_CcBkcXtlw

[The Direct Line]

Rank-and-file part-timers are either wearing Teamster Blue, Local 170 or Solidarity Red.