Teamsters want no conflict with Uncle Sugar.
OMG! Surely they have to pay that back!Teamsters want no conflict with Uncle Sugar.
Biden announces $36 billion in relief for ailing Teamsters' pension fund
This largest-ever rescue covers 350,000 workers and retirees of the Central States Pension Fund, one of the largest multi-employer pension plans in the nation that was projected to become insolvent in 2026 prior to the pandemic.www.benefitspro.com
Central States is one of a few that Teamsters has in different geographical areas. It was toast before Covid and part of the 90+ billion that went to all pension funds. Lucky timing I suppose. Reminds me of the poorly run corrupt big cities trying to jump on the handout bandwagon that were going bankrupt before Covid even showed up. The Fed is still trying to account for where all the 1.9 Trillion went that this was part of. Nevermind the Tarp $$ from 2008-09. I'll have to look into if it even requires payback...maybe in votes.
Besides, the union who represents us has nothing to do in determining our pensions or health care. The Feds do that, one reason it irritates me is that the current union really doesn't have much to negotiate but it still seems monumental to them. I would hope for a union that could successfully negotiate better pay, working conditions and end management harassment. Ours seems to negotiate away something important each contract.
What baffles me the most is that this association, in the last 14 years I carried, doesn't even pretend to put up a fight for the craft. The odds are long and often futile, but standing up is a leadership requirement. Paycheck fiasco/ withholding backpay/ etc... ..."This is NOT acceptable". Fighting words I suppose.
Yeah, throw in the avalanche of Amazon, followed by many other companies' packages, then the Covid surge and the acceptance of the term "whenever administratively possible" for contract related backpay.
Quite a while I would think. Let's say the decertify movement gets its 30% and then the Teamsters say they won't represent us. And then a group of us decide we would like to form our own independent Rural Carriers Union. The vanguard would have to present the craft with a coherent idea of what we wish to accomplish collectively as a new union that is better than the existing union. We'd have to have our operations up and running while we campaign for recognition. That would require money that we wouldn't have because we wouldn't have union dues yet.
You've been at it awhile so have a much better read. Mine: They honeymooned with USPS for quite awhile after the FSLA exemption from what I understand. Wins/losses for awhile, then the slamming by the Wells Award, followed by Clarke a decade later. I felt a union presence when starting in 2010, but shortly after the Clake Award and thereafter I sensed a strangeness as if it took the wind out of union leadership sails and haven't recovered since... characteristics of Pavlov's gaslit Union.
You've cited some very valid as well as important massacres . The '02 "count" was where it all started.
Fairly sure Table 2. Table 2 was a result of the 2008 recession panic. Amazon was more 2010-2012ish. Will never forget the regional postmaster making a stink in 2014 about how "if there is a smile on the Amazon label, that means it has to go today." I just ignored that and kept treating Amazon packages the same as all other mail.
Yep, in 2008, UAW was subjected to the two-tier wage system when GM and FiatChrysler went broke and the federal government imposed it on them as a condition of rescuing their employers. They go into contract battle here shortly with...“The Teamsters recently ended tiers at UPS and we’re going to end tiers at the Big 3.” Like the Teamsters, they will point at corporate profits and threaten strike.
) after the APWU straight up agreed to it in 2010. The Amazon early adopters in my area had gone parcel crazy by 2012 and Amazon Sunday started here in spring of 2014. Feeling the competitive heat, UPS started Sunday delivery in 2018, and instituted their two-tier driver scale for just that purpose...for their own product and get in on Amazon while it lasted.Sorry I guess I may be a moron, but even I as a moron know we are Federal employees. The union has absolutely nothing to do with leave or those other benefits of which you speak. They are indeed guaranteed as Federal employees. The benefits you falsely claim are not guaranteed are, they are absolutely not negotiated by the union.
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Actually, I prefer this to the method I've seen a lot of other carriers use which is just withdraw from the union and stop paying dues. A union with no money doesn't have a chance. Which is worse, reaching out in hopes another union will represent us with the ability to fall back on the crappy one we have if no one steps up, or just further cripple the union we have by withholding the money?
How much money does the NRLCA make ?
If you want to remove retired carriers from the voting membership of the union that represents Rural Carriers how else may it be done? It will require 2/3 vote at the National Convention if done with in the union.
$33.90 per pay period per regular carrier. Not sure what rcas now pay, (I’d guess half that?)
I just PIZZED myself off even more…..
Yup! I was thinking the EXACT same thing today as I was listening to the news on the big 3! And our nrlca will come back “1.3% is the best we can do folks! I suggest you vote yes!” And our members vote (what few that do vote) “yessa massa, you know waz best fo us slaves, yessa massa, we gonna vote yes”
