Yep, the CEO of our multi-billion dollar company recently sent an email congratulating everyone on a job well done and record profits this quarter, yet our department laid off everyone they newly hired and cut all our hours. My boss said he’s worked here for 30 years and he’s never seen cost cutting like this. It’s disgusting.

Where I am, the price of fast food is just about equal to some restaurants. There’s no point in doing fast food anymore.

Lady in the thumbnail got some guns

But what do you do when all the products are overpriced?

You’d think that, but that’s exactly what they did last negotiation. One major issues on the table is to reverse that.

If you have the funds to do this then donate it to the strike fund you’ll be doing a lot better for price to action.

I agree with this.

UPS is doing this because they know teamsters only have about 2-3 weeks worth of funds to pay striking workers. Giving UPS more business makes absolutely no sense. Give it the the union if you want to help them. But bare in mind that teamster leaders, like the UPS leadership are the kind of people that own multiple houses as well. Once you’ve paid the union dues, they could give less of a shit about you. This is from someone that knows lots of people who work for UPS.

What I’m saying is the strike will not be a boon for USPS as much as people seem to think. On the one hand they have government officials trying to get rid of it, on the other, to cut costs, they’ve offloaded a lot of their shipping to other companies like UPS, FedEx, etc. They’re going to feel the effects of the strike in a negative way. I agree with the guy quoted in the article that the other shipping companies like FedEx and DHL will be the ones getting the increased business. and they don’t have a union.

USPS usually handles the last mile. Guess what big company handles the other miles for them.

I feel bad for the loaders and sorters. Kinda shitty they’re forced to strike when everything was only ever about the delivery drivers.

Edit: My friend is a loader. Not one peep from union about any of their issues. They’re all about the drivers. She’s worried about her finances during the strike. Teamsters is gigantic. It’s one big business battling another big business and only the peons are going to hurt. Oh and AC and stuff like that was the easy negotiation that everyone agreed to. The impasse is about pay and only driver pay. Big surprise.