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UPS To Fire 250 Queens Workers For Protesting One Employee's Dismissal: Gothamist

This is the most updated article that i have found.

250 Drivers at the Queens UPS store have been dismissed due to walking out of the job protesting another drivers dismissal.

The walk out was not an authorized or part of the contract that allowed them to do this. for 90 minutes they walked off the job encouraged by their union rep.
The company has dismissed 25 of them already and the other 225 will be let go as soon as replacements are found.

The person the protest was about was let go over time sheet issues.


I feel bad for these guys but according to the article they were warned if they walked off that it was not a proper walk out and there could be risks.
of course now they are up in arms but they chose to ignore the warning.

the other 1150 employee's will keep their jobs.
 
Actually if it was not in their agreement, UPS could/should fire them. But I have a hard time believing they hire and train 250 drivers that fast. I was a UPS guy many years ago.
UPS To Fire 250 Queens Workers For Protesting One Employee's Dismissal: Gothamist

This is the most updated article that i have found.

250 Drivers at the Queens UPS store have been dismissed due to walking out of the job protesting another drivers dismissal.

The walk out was not an authorized or part of the contract that allowed them to do this. for 90 minutes they walked off the job encouraged by their union rep.
The company has dismissed 25 of them already and the other 225 will be let go as soon as replacements are found.

The person the protest was about was let go over time sheet issues.


I feel bad for these guys but according to the article they were warned if they walked off that it was not a proper walk out and there could be risks.
of course now they are up in arms but they chose to ignore the warning.

the other 1150 employee's will keep their jobs.
 
Actually if it was not in their agreement, UPS could/should fire them. But I have a hard time believing they hire and train 250 drivers that fast. I was a UPS guy many years ago.
Yea you guys bust your butts. It's not a job for just anyone.
 
I was in better shape at UPS than I was on active duty in the Marine Corps.
Yea you guys bust your butts. It's not a job for just anyone.
 
Actually if it was not in their agreement, UPS could/should fire them. But I have a hard time believing they hire and train 250 drivers that fast. I was a UPS guy many years ago.

UPS is brutal, they don't play.
 
If you can sort/load or drive their trucks they love you though. but yea, dont screw with delivering the packages.
UPS is brutal, they don't play.
 
I was in better shape at UPS than I was on active duty in the Marine Corps.

i was out of work and did holiday work for UPS i was busting my butt. i tried to get on permanently but i think i had a few people not like me.
plus i was logging more hours than what they wanted. they wanted me working like 2 hours a day and that wouldn't even cover my gas to meet
the driver.

so the drivers were giving me 5+ hours. i didn't mind it.

i think they will train them as they come and fire them as they get drivers in. plenty of people needing work out there so they shouldn't have a difficult time.
 
I live in a primary UPS hub....the company is everywhere here. Knowing many employees who work for this company (Pilot to driver...and a few distribution line people)....They run a very tight and brutal ship.

I would not work for them unless I had to.
 
I've never heard of a company firing someone and then allowing them to continue working until they find a replacement. Too much chance for sabotage. Most places now walk you from the firing manager's office to the front door. Why let someone back at the company computer system?

"You're fired, you bstrd, but can you work until the end of the day because we need the help?"

Hard core union types tend to act out when displeased.
 
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I've never heard of a company firing someone and then allowing them to continue working until they find a replacement. Too much chance for sabotage. Most places now walk you from the firing manager's office to the front door. Why let someone back at the company computer system?

"You're fired, you bstrd, but can you work until the end of the day because we need the help?"

Hard core union types tend to act out when displeased.


Yeah that is weird..


Tim-
 
UPS To Fire 250 Queens Workers For Protesting One Employee's Dismissal: Gothamist

This is the most updated article that i have found.

250 Drivers at the Queens UPS store have been dismissed due to walking out of the job protesting another drivers dismissal.

The walk out was not an authorized or part of the contract that allowed them to do this. for 90 minutes they walked off the job encouraged by their union rep.
The company has dismissed 25 of them already and the other 225 will be let go as soon as replacements are found.

The person the protest was about was let go over time sheet issues.


I feel bad for these guys but according to the article they were warned if they walked off that it was not a proper walk out and there could be risks.
of course now they are up in arms but they chose to ignore the warning.

the other 1150 employee's will keep their jobs.

Well, hopefully, other union drivers across the nation won't be sympathetic to those who walked off - got fired, the last thing shippers / retailers need is another "brown out". :2razz:

All Out to Win Teamsters Strike Against UPS!
 
Protected concerted activity

Protected Concerted Activity is a legal term used in labor policy to define employee protection against employer retaliation in the United States. It is a legal principle under the subject of the freedom of association. It defines the activities workers may partake in without fear of employer retaliation.....

.....Generally speaking, there is protected concerted activity when two or more employees act together to improve their terms and conditions of employment, although it is (on rare occasions) possible for conduct to be so egregious that it becomes unprotected.[2] Employees have a right to advocate in this manner even where there is no union involved....

Protected concerted activity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
I've never heard of a company firing someone and then allowing them to continue working until they find a replacement. Too much chance for sabotage. Most places now walk you from the firing manager's office to the front door. Why let someone back at the company computer system?

"You're fired, you bstrd, but can you work until the end of the day because we need the help?"

Hard core union types tend to act out when displeased.

"Acting out when displeased" is pretty much universal to humanity. It's about the only reason people act out, actually.
 
Perhaps the retained employees who have been fired haven't been told. That's a brutal way of have everybody work their butts off until the axe falls.
 
Perhaps the retained employees who have been fired haven't been told. That's a brutal way of have everybody work their butts off until the axe falls.

no they haven't to be told. the problem is that UPS can't afford to fire and hire and train 250 people. so it is going to be on a fire as hire basis. how that works out i am not sure.
i find it odd as well, but they still have to deliver packages.
 
Obligatory...

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I was in better shape at UPS than I was on active duty in the Marine Corps.

I have family in Sun City Grand in Surprise, AZ. They have a bunch of former UPS guys from the Chicago area who live near them. I've met those men and they've made similar comments. They said being a UPS driver was the hardest physical labor they ever experienced, and all of these same guys saw action in the Korean War.
 
I'm sure Ed Schultz is on his way to do a month's worth of shows on this.
 
I'm sure Ed Schultz is on his way to do a month's worth of shows on this.

probably.

union or no you can't just walk off the job and expect to keep it. what is even worse is that it was their union rep that did it to them and encouraged them to do it.

the guy they were protesting for was let go because of timesheet descrepancies which usually means he was putting more time on his timesheet than what he worked which is considered theft.
 
UPS To Fire 250 Queens Workers For Protesting One Employee's Dismissal: Gothamist

This is the most updated article that i have found.

250 Drivers at the Queens UPS store have been dismissed due to walking out of the job protesting another drivers dismissal.

The walk out was not an authorized or part of the contract that allowed them to do this. for 90 minutes they walked off the job encouraged by their union rep.
The company has dismissed 25 of them already and the other 225 will be let go as soon as replacements are found.

The person the protest was about was let go over time sheet issues.


I feel bad for these guys but according to the article they were warned if they walked off that it was not a proper walk out and there could be risks.
of course now they are up in arms but they chose to ignore the warning.

the other 1150 employee's will keep their jobs.

In an economy where millions of Americans are out of work and millions more have given up and stopped looking, I have little sympathy for a bunch of hot-heads who took their union steward's advice and pissed away their jobs.
 
In an economy where millions of Americans are out of work and millions more have given up and stopped looking, I have little sympathy for a bunch of hot-heads who took their union steward's advice and pissed away their jobs.

which is why UPS shouldn't have a hard time finding replacement drivers.
 
I have a friend that worked at UPS between the conveyor belt and the back of the trucks. Very hard work indeed!
 
I've never heard of a company firing someone and then allowing them to continue working until they find a replacement. Too much chance for sabotage. Most places now walk you from the firing manager's office to the front door. Why let someone back at the company computer system?

"You're fired, you bstrd, but can you work until the end of the day because we need the help?"

Hard core union types tend to act out when displeased.

Oh yea, I can relate to that. In 1974-1975, I worked for Lear-Siegler in Grand Rapids, Michigan, repairing AYN-1 and DC-130 nav computers for the Air Force. There was a serious dispute between the UAW and management, and the Union pretty much sabotaged the Air Force contract by sending a couple of dozen nav computers out the door with no circuit boards in them. But the really scary part is that the Air Force never sent those computers back. I quit and came to Texas before the union finally went on strike.
 
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