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Posted by: Quincunx ( IWW, Over the Hills, Not so Faraway ) on September 11, 1997 at 11:13:38:

In Reply to: It pissed a lot of us off! posted by Gray Poopon on September 06, 1997 at 18:18:06:

: Oh come off it man! UPS was ADDING jobs, not cutting them!

I doubt it. The jobs they were adding were (for the most part) full-time jobs being recategorised as part-time jobs.

:Reliable insiders have told me that full-time UPS employees is making over $20/hour! And part-: timers was making over $12!!!

What's wrong with making good wages? I know people in the delivery business myself due to the fact that I spent a number of years in that industry. Do those reliable insiders you refer to make salaries in excess of that? Are they risking their lives and wearing down their bodies due to the accelerated workload like the workers who have to physically handle those packages?


: Those buncha ungreatful morons! They caused us so much trouble!

Who do they have to be grateful to and what for? What made them morons?
If striking made them morons then your point is lost on me when I can see that the workers won the strike.To me that doesn't seem very moronic.

Lots of small
: and medium size businesses had to lay off employees cause nothin could be shipped!

That will be a point that corporate media will use to raise anger amongst members in the business community. It seems to be working very well.

: To the UPS drivers, I give you the finger!!!
The UPS drivers and their supporters (me included)won that strike and polls indicated 55%
support from Americans. You have to give a lot of fingers to a lot of people in order to vent (what I feel) are your ill-founded sentiments.




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