Bad UPS News: Furloughs begin

[mikecweb]

Not to kick these guys while they are down, but this is why the motto I have taken in this career is 'live where I want, not where I am based'...

That way you can complain about a commute.

 

[Trip7]

“We are a Union – Not a Social Club!”

With regard to the situation that occurred in ANC a couple weeks ago, we had SDF reserve crewmembers who were on scheduled layovers in ANC with scheduled return DH several days later and therefore, not required to be available or on call as the contract does not allow reserves from one domicile to sit reserve in another domicile. When crewmembers elected to not answer their telephone, one Company ACP allegedly decided to act on behalf of the Company and take matters into his own hands and went to the Marriott crew hotel. He then got a bellman and a hotel maintenance man and went to the rooms and knocked on the doors – doors which had DO NOT DSTURB signs on them and that were locked and safety latched. In one case the ACP had the hotel maintenance man open the door and use a tool to open the security latch from the outside. In the same case the crewmember was actually in the shower and the ACP knocked on the bathroom door. Once they identified each other through the bathroom door the crewmember put on a towel and opened the door. He was subsequently handed a printout with his photo on it and a trip notification and the ACP vocally challenged him twice to acknowledge positive notification of his reserve assignment for a flight the following day.

 

[seagull]

For the record, FedEx is not furloughing and there are no plans in place to do so. Even some talk of hiring to resume next year if the economy improves more. This is a UPS thing, and shouldn't surprise those that have been paying attention.

 

[NC_BE300]

Had a UPS guy in the jumpseat today and heard about this for the 1st time.

That stinks.

 

[fholbert]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) -- Dozens of United Parcel Service pilots are out of work Sunday night. UPS furloughed 54 pilots as part of a company-wide effort to cut costs. The lay-offs could last up to a year and affect as many as 300 pilots by 2011.

http://www.fox41.com/Global/story.asp?S=12529376

 

[Nihon_Ni]

Big business = pure evil. That's all there is to it. Pure, unadulterated greed.

Yep! Just like anyone who wants a pay raise is just greedy and selfish. Pure, unadulterated greed.

 

[seaav8tor]

I have always heard ever since I started flying that working for UPS/Fed Ex was the jackpot in aviation. I guess everything goes in cycles?

In aviation it is one step forward, two steps back. That is the cycle.

Probably will not affect anyone reading this board but once NextGen is in place, air freight will be the first civ comm UAVs. The technology is mature enough now to implement but NextGen must be in place. Since the government must make NextGen happen the timeline will probably stretch out at least 20 years from now for freight and 30-40 years for pax. But it will happen.