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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What should a "fair" wage for UPS drivers be?  A lot of posters think it's too much but nobody has said what they should earn.  And do they provide more value to our economy than most of the folks sitting behind a desk basically pushing papers that use absolutely zero of their college degree to do their job?  I'd argue yes.[/quote]

$50-70k.  Pretty much the average between fedex, Dhl, usps, Amazon, etc.  they’re about $19-28 /hr, while the union is extorting UPS for $49/ hr.    There’s no way ups drivers work that much harder or better than Amazon delivery guys.  They’re bring hugely overpaid. [/quote]

They need to get better uniions!. Why are you hating on UPS drivers for having a union that clearly knows their value they bring to the table?[/quote]

Yellow just filed for bankruptcy and 22,000 teamsters lost their job (good job unions!).  The teamsters played hardball with UPS Freight 5 years ago, and UPS Freight emptied their network and said they would close their doors if the teamsters didn't back off.  UPS ended up selling UPS Freight to TFII, and TFII called the new company TForce.  TForce had to raise their prices significantly to pay for the non-competitive wage and benefit package that the teamsters forced UPS to sign.  TForce lost roughly 50% of their business and thousands of teamster employees lost their jobs (good job unions!). UPS will be forced to raise their rates significantly to pay for the new teamster wage and benefit package, which will result in lost business to FedEx, USPS, and the fast growing regional non-union parcel carriers.  Thousands of teamsters will lose their jobs.  Nearly every single teamster transportation company has gone bankrupt since Jimmy Carter deregulated the trucking industry.  The American landscape is littered with thousands of vacant buildings that used to employ millions of unionized workers that eventually were forced into bankruptcy by corrupt and incompetent union leaders, or to move their operations oversees to remain in business.  UPS will eventually be destroyed by the teamsters.  It's just a matter of time.  [/quote]

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