: Yes, UPS is the largest courier service, but according to the national news, an
: increasing number of pissed off customers are switching to Fed-Ex, Airborne, and
: others. I agree that UPS is not going to fold tomorrow, and will likely remain the largest in the courier industry. But I predict that gradually, its competition will be picking up a lot of UPS's frustrated customers, many of which are small business owners who depend on these cost-effective shipping services.Many of these small businesses can easily find another courier service and to my experience,because I've spent a lot of years in the courier business, this is a business that is in a constant state of flux.Accounts are routinely cancelled and started up again. One courier's goof up can cost thousands of dollars and so can the goof ups of the top executives in the gigantic firms like UPS. This time it cost them way too much.
: An interesting point regarding the Teamsters Union, the rank-and-file can't vote. This is democracy?!!! And strikers' pay isn't very much.
The Teamsters have a very long and acrimonious history as far as democracy goes.So, yes, I do agree with you on that one.I know of one guy who got another union voted into the trucking outfit he's working at and voted to decertify the Teamsters. Now the worker's are happier because at least they're in a union and not a guild ( which is how most big so-called unions in the USA operate).
As far as striker's pay and strike funds are concerned I feel that the rank and file should control and know exactly where every bit of their money goes. My posting,"That 'D' Word", goes into that subject in length.
This is something else for McD employees to think about regarding unions. Furthermore, if the striking McD workers put their affected franchise owners out of business, then what will that get them? They'll be cut down to size also, like John Wayne Bobbit.
Then that's what happens when management can't spend their corporate billions towards such things as a living wage.I guess the management and workers can both go resume writing and job hunting together. America is truly united!!! However,the overniter delivery on Bobbit will have to be transported by reefer truck so as to not spoil other packages.We wouldn't want it just putrifying in the dry goods section would we?
Please beware the stuff that emanates from business oriented media.The sad fact is that there is more propaganda in a democratic society than there ever was in the fake communist countries. We don't have the honesty to call it business propaganda here. Instead we call them advertisements, infomercials and such cutely named TV shows such as the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour or Wall Street Week in Review to name just a few of many.
