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In San Diego County, Fat Pensions Mean Higher Taxes
"Now UPS is a direct competitor with UPS, and those two are by far the leaders in the industry-and have driven most of the others out of business "...... Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? I assume you meant FedEx and UPS. surfpuppy, of course you can say that UPS hasn't raised pay in a quarter century. You are free to say anything you want. But you are wrong. Now if you say that UPS hasn't raised pay in a quarter century for it's part-time employees, I would agree with you to the extent that the Teamsters have agreed to the contracts which kept part time pay frozen for the most part since about 1981. It seems that the Teamsters are content to get increases in pay and benefits for full-time employees at the expense of the part-time employees. So who do you blame, FedEx or the union. It seems to me they are both complicit. There was a .50 raise in the 1997 contract which of course is really like nothing at all.— October 8, 2009 10:49 p.m.
In San Diego County, Fat Pensions Mean Higher Taxes
Response to 12 Fed Ex is non union. Conventional wisdom says that FedEx would have benefits and pay competitive with UPS in order to keep the Teamsters out. Also FedEx was founded as an airline, so it's protected by the Railway Labor Act which covers railways and airlines with national labor contracts. My understanding is that means "Congress mandated that when disputes arise in the workplace, transportation workers covered by the RLA must “work now (i.e. transport the goods) and grieve later.” IBT has been trying to get FedEx reclassified so it falls under the NLRB instead. Their business model classified their "ground" drivers as independent contractors. Long story short, many suits filed some went forward some didn't. In Ca. in 2005 the courts ruled against FedEx who appealed and lost.The judge awarded the more than 200 drivers $5.3 million. More about it here: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/mar/28/… .— October 8, 2009 8:40 p.m.
In San Diego County, Fat Pensions Mean Higher Taxes
"Not when I worked there-everyone was union. Teamsters." I stand corrected on that point. Let me make a correction to post # 5. The 2007 contract got UPS OUT of having to create any more full-time jobs out of part time. IBT got that concession in 1997 and they were trying to retain it in the current contract. The new contract, which took affect on 8-1-2008 also freezes starting wages for part-timers at $8.50 over the life of the agreement.I would guess that's the reason for the low temp wages. Also, new part-timers have to wait a year before they are eligible for individual health benefits and 18 months for family coverage. They also don't get vacation, sick days, or paid holidays during their first year. Instead of increasing part-time wages and benefits, the Teamsters negotiated increases in wages and benefits for full-timers of $9.00 per hour per worker over the life of the new contract. The last contract got full-timers $8.75 increases over the life of that contract, which was 6 years. That's an increase of $17.75 in wages and benefits over an 11 yr period. You really can't say that UPS hasnt raised pay in a quarter century. Obviously they have. I mean, can you think of any union that would not get it's members increases for that long? As for the static part-time wages, that was a decision the teamsters made. The way I see it, they have made the choice for many years to allow part-time wages to be kept low in order to make gains for the full-timers. They are as much responsible, if not more, the UPS is.— October 8, 2009 7:57 p.m.
In San Diego County, Fat Pensions Mean Higher Taxes
"average non union part-time wage was $11.00 per hour" should be: "average part-time wage was $11.00 per hour."— October 8, 2009 5:37 p.m.
In San Diego County, Fat Pensions Mean Higher Taxes
Surfpuppy, I don't have a personal opinion, since I have never been employed by UPS, but unless I am mistaken, UPS hasn't even cracked Fortune Magazine's top 100 of best companies to work for in at least 5 years. I realize that you did not detail your criterion for saying UPS is one of the best, but Fortune Magazine creates their ratings based on how employees rate their own companies. Part of the pay disparity may lie with the fact that temp part time employees are non-union,unless I am mistaken, and therefore exempt from union pay scale. The reason union part time wages haven't changed is that back in the early 80's, the Teamsters agreed to freeze part-time wages in exchange for increases in full time wages and it apparently has been part of the contracts since. UPS went on strike for a couple of weeks 10 or 12 years ago. The main issue of the strike was the increasing proportion of part-time, lower-paid workers at the expense of the higher paid, full time employees. What a suprise. I remember reading at that time that the average non union part-time wage was $11.00 per hour. UPS and the Teamsters signed a new contract a couple of years ago,about a year before their current contract expired. I remember the big deal in that one being that UPS agreed to create something like 10,000 full-time positions from the ranks of part-time employees(over the 5yr term of the new contract), which was about 10x more than UPS wanted to create. They also agreed to raise part time payby about $4.00, which is also over the term of the contract. But again if the temp positions are non union, that's why the pay is still so low. You can blame UPS for not paying their temp help very well, the rest of the wages are what the Teamsters negotiated.— October 8, 2009 5:19 p.m.
That Fish Smell
Ahh Fish Heads. I haven't heard that song in a long, long time. Fish Heads trivia, which actor starred in and directed the video? http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids… We've seen Billy Mumy in one of his other bands a few times around LA. The Jenerators, with among others, David Jolliffe and Miguel Ferrer(he was married to Leilani Sarelle who was Roxy in Basic Instinct. )My favorite Jenerators song........Pussy Whipped http://www.billmumyfanclub.com/jenerators/albums/…— September 26, 2009 8:20 a.m.
Fun Football Stories
Josh, That was Bo Jackson who ran over the boz, on MNF no less. The was the game where Bo ran ran for over 200 yds, including 90 yds untouched down the sideline into the tunnel. I think Bo made a point of running bosworth down because he (bosworth) had shot his mouth off about shutting Bo down. Imagine how good he could have been if he had'nt gotten injured. Bo knew football!!! As for Sanders, no he never had a negative yardage game in his entire career and I think he had only 2 or 3 under 20 yds. I do remember that one of them was 1yd on 5 carries in his rookie year but I'm sure that was the worst. Pretty amazing to think he had a career average of 99ypg, never rushed for less than 1100yds and averaged over 1500 yds for his career. Oh yeah, the only other player to average better than his 5.0ypc...Jim Brown 5.2. Give him props. He wasn't having any fun playing on a bad team for an owner who wasn't gonna do anything to make the team beter, so he walked away, as the best in the game, and never looked back. Will LT be able to do the same???Hmmmmmmmmmmm And with Emmitt, he had Aikman and Irvin for the bulk of his career. You might stop 1 or 2 of them, but stopping all 3 was pretty tough.— September 25, 2009 5 p.m.
This. And That.
#25 re Calvin Murphy, I think that was 5 or 6 years ago, but he was found innocent. He has something like 15 kid by 10 different women(even more than Shaun Kemp lol) and I think it was some of his daughters from some women other than his wife. btw, the difference with Jordan was he came back to basketball having left with another 3peat and still playing at the top of his game. He has said his decision to leave after the 98 season had alot to do with Jackson, Pippen and Rodman leaving or the expectations the were leavin. Remember he was already part owner president of basketball operations in Washington. He came back because he could still play. Completely different situation than Unitas, or Mays and Aaron for that matter.— September 25, 2009 1:47 p.m.
That Fish Smell
Josh, we saw Country Joe a couple of years ago up in SFO. There was a concert in Golden Gate Park. Summer of Love 40th Anniv, something like that. Anyway, I saw an interview he did and he talked about the (then) upcoming 40th anniv of Woodstock. We wanted to see him at the Greek last month but we were out of town. check it out http://www.countryjoe.com/— September 25, 2009 1:08 p.m.
That Fish Smell
russl, It wasn't a mudshark, it was a red snapper. And I think it was supposedly was one of Zep's road crew. Remember, it's only rock and roll.— September 25, 2009 12:56 p.m.