re: UPS is offering its drivers $150k to leave the company, regardless of years of service

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At a time when the amount of online ordering is continually skyrocketing --at risk of driving most brick and mortar shops out of business--- it strikes me as odd that UPS is so desperate to cut drivers?

Sucks as their salaried delivery personnel instead of the FED Ex subcontracted get the package out of your hands like a hot potato model generally works a lot better for the actual customer.

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Its a union busting tactic where the plan is to get rid of enough current employees to force a new vote with a large number of new employees. Highly unlikely to work but that's what it is. The reason its unlikely to work is UPS probably doesn't have a bunch of superfluous employees lying about the warehouse...so they will have to hire new ones and there is a reason UPS employees are pro union and it ain't because they are brainwashed morons like some would like to believe...its because UPS management is constantly trying to frick over their employees and will do so to the point that the new ones will vote to be represented pretty damn fast.

What kind of moron, other than a person who was close to retirement anyway, would swap a job making the kind of money that UPS employees make, with good benefits, for what would amount to about 18 months compensation, when they'd be forced to find employment elsewhere, at a lower wage most likely? Not many I would bet.


According to Google AI $150K is about 75% of the total compensation package of the average Teamster at UPS. Thats 9 months salary and benefits to leave a job that pays somewhere close to 50% more than comparable positions, again according to Google AI. Not many people not planning on retiring in the next couple of years will take that bait.