UPS TO pay drivers $170,000
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Anonymous
Yup. People are cheering it. Wait until all of this gross wage inflation gets passed to consumers. It will be runaway wage driven inflation. It took you 35 working years for you to save and your 401k to become worth $2M? Ooopps too bad, that $2M now worthless because wage inflation has ruined your entire life's savings. |
Anonymous
Your English degree from JMU is showing. 1. You don’t understand the compensation package. 2. You are obviously and utterly incapable of being a UPS driver. You lack the necessary skills. But keep shitposting the internet about how crazy it is that someone other than a professional online gossip column reader and generic reply dork can make a “6 figure salary”! 😂😂😂 |
Anonymous
And the low skilled hourly workers may cheer these wage increases but will never be satisfied because prices go up with their wages; look at reddit lots of jobs seekers asking where is the job where I can make a few dollars more 15-18 dollars or so isn't enough to live on. And that is another thing we are setting up low skilled workers to think they can live on low skilled salaries because one, people keep on saying they deserve more and they are getting all these increases since the pandemic. I see this play out in my family. |
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Anonymous
| This will include benefits, and of course factor in that your hips and knees will be shot in your early 50s, and the new air conditioned trucks can only do so much when you constantly have to get out to drop packages off. |
Anonymous
| The news report states that at the end of the new contract, UPS drivers will average $49 per hour ($102,000 per year) and $50,000 in benefits. Not sure how they arrive at the $170,000 figure because-using the numbers in the article--total compensation in 5 years will average $152,000 of which $50,000 is benefits. |
Anonymous
| I value the work of UPS drivers a hell of a lot more than I do lawyers. I’d be thrilled to see drivers earning twice as much. |
Anonymous
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I was going to apply for a position, then I remembered this video last year.
UPS driver collapses at front door. |
Anonymous
| Plenty of people shop at places like Costco because they go above and beyond in terms of retail opportunities/benefits for their employees while avoiding Walmart or Amazon. I can see people supporting ups over the others for this same reason. |
Anonymous
I dunno, my life feels very similar to how it did the last time UPS workers negotiated a bigger salary for full-time employees. The Chicago school has done an impressive job making labor movements the cause for any and all ills in our society. |
Anonymous
Hopefully people will stop sending tshirts to Timmy who just sends them to Goodwill anyway. |
Anonymous
| If we all included our benefits in our salary comp it would look higher - plus it is at end of contract. |
Anonymous
+1 it is so stupid to say suggest that the entire cost of this will be passed on to consumers and cause a wage-price spiral which hurts workers, especially when a) UPS says it is cutting its revenue forecasts sharply in the article and b) there is ample evidence from the last couple of years that inflation has been caused by firms sticking with high prices they pushed on us from supply chain problems even after those problems are gone. Basically it’s Panglossian view that says workers should be glad with whatever crumbs management is willing to give them. |
Anonymous
| It’s almost like the UPS drivers know their worth in this world where everyone wants what they want on their doorstep right now. |
Anonymous
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People who work in person, always deserve to be paid more than people who WFH. Good for UPS for paying their drivers a nice salary.
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