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UPS worker here, that potential strike that was all over the news? It got me a 50% pay increase so now I'm solidly middle class, and will be able to actually take vacations soon.
Don't care about upvotes, just wanted to celebrate with a crappily made meme.
JCstormz
on average union jobs pay 20% more, have more benefits and average 2% in dues (despite the claims otherwise by certain grps)
otamolot
Unions make America stronger. Our contract renews next year.
strangelyaddicting
I get your point... But no... You are NOT middle class. If you are one major medical emorrgency away from losing your home or anything else? You are poor. Eat. The fucking rich.
StarscreamAndHutch
suckstoyourauntie
I don't know how the big banks keep avoiding unionization. I mean, I know how it's discouraged, but the front-line have the numbers to fight back and make it happen. Bank tellers make up most of the staff and are paid a tiny bit above minimum wage. And crazy sales targets are the reason that they opened millions of accounts and credit cards, without permission, causing huge fines to the banks. They don't even make commissions, they just do it to meet targets and keep their jobs.
Sechran
Good on you guys for reminding the bean counters who hauls in the beans they're counting. Until you put a boot to their throat, employees will never amount to anything more than lines on an expense report.
AccountCreatedToUpvoteDogs
"travel, after labor, is the company's largest controllable cost" - an actual email we got once asking us not to spend our travel allowance.
Frakon
There is no such thing as Upper / Middle / Lower class, there is the working class, and the non working class. AKA, the ones who earn bonuses for your work while playing golf and snorting cocaine. They run the company and steal the profits of your labour, never let them divide us by our salaries. Congrats on the union win!! SOLIDARITY. UNIONIZE! ORGANIZE!
TouchofSatan
Our* crappy meme , comrade
canadianreserve
In my opinion, unions are capitalist. Negotiating your wage is definitely not communist. Bargaining as a group just makes it hard for the employers to intimidate everyone. Unions are good things.
Haemaelaeinen
Unions are socialist. Not communist. And not even remotely capitalist, capitalism is what we have now in Finland with Coalition party (our moneywhore political party, like politicians in US), they are very busy taking everything they can from workers to benefit companies. Sick days etc.
BlitzerRhames
Congratulations on the being able to survive, for the time being
TheLordOfGiraffes
I hope he’s doing it for himself, the Time Being is kind of an asshole and doesn’t deserve it.
alanrails
Congrats my dude
StewedTomaters
"Middle class" doesn't mean what people think it does.
zanaria
Also Companies: "Lets just shut down this location then reopen it so there is no union."
lovepuppy
why did you think factories moved to china/india/vietcongs/etc etc etc?
kojenk
They were going to do that anyway but more than a few have been burnt by doing so
OperationM1ndcrime
That's freaking awesome for you!
dwilson0725
There's the liberal agenda again! People wanted to be PAID for their hard work. Psssh. /s
whatseventhepointt
Hell yeah brother. Wish my local had the intelligence to strike. We voted to authorize and still took the first deal…..yeah we lost out vs inflation. I was pissed then and I’m pissed now.
giorgosgousetis123101
Gg
spidermenz
Zetor
Solidarity!✊
quade
Was there a strike? I didn't keep up with the story and haven't heard it mentioned in a while.
Skywatcher16
nope. was gonna be one, but corpos caved negating the need. because that can happen when you dont let them divide and conquer.
caudata
As soon as the union won shit got real quiet didn't it?
Skywatcher16
curious how a lack of injustice and controversy makes for slow news days, isnt it?
zmanz
Heard of Barbenheim? Thzts the last movies u'll see for awhile. SAG strike of writers and actors in Hollywood. Ask Fran Drescher
katashimon13
some literature: https://www.tdu.org/strike-threat-makes-ups-deliver-ta-tdu | |https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/28/what-happened-to-the-big-ups-strike/?fbclid=IwAR3dFamd-PjgGflXToAIB99bT5SG4Iid1071H9mNNu4pjkreCJ_qZFhm4d8 | |https://labornotes.org/2023/07/ups-teamsters-vote-contract-ends-driver-tiers-lifts-part-timer-pay
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LokiShade
Just the fact that the US has a Democrat administration right now is probably all it took. Or at least a pro union Democrat administration.
DildoMussolini
lmao "pro union" administration is PR nonsense, just ask those railway workers
LokiShade
Yeah, perhaps I didn't think my comment through. How about a less pro corporation administration as compared to the last?
Goddesahpan
Nice! Congrats!
Djkb6718
I wish there was a universal labor union.
Pooprocketpower
IWW.org It’s DIY but more effective
carrotsonfire
Universal unions become unwieldy and hard to get any consensus from unless it's for wide overarcing issues that affect everyone. Trade unions are better because it focuses on issues that affect a very specific trade and thus that trade can more easily get consensus and act.
OptimusPom
Best I can do is to continue tax breaks for the wealthy and crush any mention of union in any industry.
RaekinTheBored
Could we also get “pretends to enforce union labor laws” too?
OptimusPom
Best I can do is a "Pizza Party".
OneBabyOneHamburgerBun
Bit of a shame it looks like it will exclude 180,000 part timers, the air conditioning being added to the trucks won't start phasing in till 2024. Even with those caveats, a win is a win.
CivilRationality
A well run union is necessary for the middle class to thrive.
whatspaulplayingtoday
Fuck yeah, buds! Congrats!
DanielAsparagus
Great work. Just get out of there before your body gives out. Use your healthcare. You driving?
Nagant
I'm a paper pusher, so I don't have to deal with getting my body as trashed, thankfully. I'm glad the driving guys got A/C for the package cars, even if its gonna take a while.
katashimon13
its like... a third? of the fleet and has nothing for electrification of said fleet 😢
SanshinDojo
United we bargain, divided we beg. Congratulations to you and your union family.
mikeatike
United we Parcel, Service we Brown.
UncleMartha
I seriously thought you were going to make a rhyming couplet there. "United we bargain, divided we beg. Congratulations to you and to your left leg."
PriestofThor
CarpoolTunnelSyndrome
uwbdwb
LimeNotLemon
UwU
jacquesdustatefarm
This person is drowning
CarpoolTunnelSyndrome
Drowning in union pussy!
BubblesTheFish
I'm union pregnant and I think it's ours.
spookyhats
TsubakiTragic
"Belongers"... for a moment there I read that as Beforeigners, a great TV series by the way, and there a societal similarities between the two words.
Radix865
A mason or carpenter with that kind of shit pay?
spookyhats
Well at least everything isn't 2.5 to 3 times the cost here/s
somnif
I wonder why they limit themselves to locals only. Is it a regulation thing?
spookyhats
So you are supposed to hire locals first if there's one who meets all the requirements, then people with PRCs( permanent resident certificate) any one else you have to get a work permit for. Honestly most of these are work permit renewal listening. House keepers, landscapers, and Laborers are usually Haitian, Dominican, or Filipino.
somnif
Ah so its a case of "Well we cant get any applicants (at this pay rate)! Guess we gotta look at foreign hires now!" sort of thing?
spookyhats
Sorta of, but also not really. It's a lot more complicated. Those jobs are looked down on so a lot of TI' won't take those jobs, most jobs pay about that, so unless you get a job that tips you are in the 8 to 12 dollar range. Also there's a six month probation period before you are entitled workers benefits. Use to be that would always be minimum wage, but you would get a better offer if you worked out. But the better offer seem to have dried up lately
hellvis
What the fuck you can't live on $8/hr in turks and caicos. The food is astronomical. You'd work all day just to afford dinner!
spookyhats
For real
PontiacDude
Man I always heard how great UPS paid their full time deliverers. How times have changed
Nagant
The drivers still get great pay, but there's a LOT of support staff that didn't and this contract is helping us a lot.
VitaminJay
Your crappy meme is happily accepted, brother/sister/non-binary sibling.
VayaKahvi
I like "cousin" you know like how Tito Makani would use it.
LordofGoats
Forever one of my favorites. And the fact that it has a sequel with Katie the scab!
elicansmile
Game Changer is so gooooood
valdar27
I'm more of a Make Some Noise fan, but everything they do is good. Found them through some "uhm, actually" videos.
elicansmile
I mean, YES. But Make Some Noise is a Game Changer series that was so good it became its own show, so I say it all counts lol.
valdar27
True. Also every episode of any show with Brennan Lee Mulligan is golden.
MetroidPrimeHesTheBest
This was a wild episode
VitaminJay
I love most of what Dropout delivers.
VikingsAreNinjaPirates
Best $5.99 a month I've ever spent. And to hear them talk, Sam Reich is one of the nicest guys in Earth. (His dad is Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Clinton and currently a liberal economist. There's a quote from him in the front page right now. )
VitaminJay
Strong agree on all counts.
keraos
I love what J Kenji Lopez-Alt says for this: guys, gals, and non-binary pals
VitaminJay
Big same.
Isiel89
We could just shorten it to pals.
keraos
True, but there's a nice rhythm to it. Similar to ladies and gentlemen, but inclusive!
VinzClorthoInSunglasses
Theydies and Gentlethem!
XeononSolomon
BuT UnIoNs ArE bAd AnD dOnT hElP pEoPlE
ktkboom
My local didn’t and it apparently wasn’t uncommon for our area. Consistently bent over for the business’ & screwed us over with the results. Worked a mixed union non union store & unless you worked upstate you didn’t get anything other than finger pointing and excuses. I worked south & my job was the trickle down. There was even a time when they mishandled the funds so badly that they let all of our health insurance go bye bye and then we had to pay even bigger union dues for zip benefits.
MamaRosie
Unfortunately, Unions are, too, made of people. And all people are capable of corruption. Some areas have this happen, and it's up to good people willing to make a stand and fight for change for the Union to come back into what it is supposed to be known as. I hope you stand in solidarity and your area gets things figured out o7
macdjord
Police unions don't.
UncleMartha
solarshado
I mean, they *do* still help their members...
macdjord
Yes, but cops don't count as people~
lovepuppy
hahah. tell the BLM to unionise before they all get caught for fraud...
sircowdog
The vote ain't passed yet. Here's hoping no dip shits screw it up.
katashimon13
arguably the vote not passing would be better for the labor movement
sircowdog
I don't see how not passing a contract where we get everything we asked for is a good thing
katashimon13
because it wasn't actually everything everyone asked for... the part timer instant boost was supposed to be to 25$ for example... they have been stealing from us for decades..... think about it if the hyper rich people just gave you everything you asked for right before the deadline... without a fight... did you ask for enough?
sircowdog
It wasn't without a fight. And what you're describing sounds like greed.
katashimon13
-we- know that but the public at large is not very informed of all the systems testing practice pickets Amazon supports... the average person knows that a contract at this stage was accepted by the company and ups teamsters have not gone on strike...like all the organizers have been saying "we are setting an example for America for the world" it is unrealistic for the average union strike to go this way especially without the network of systems/support/strategy ups teamsters have