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2023-08-12 Economy

UPS is hit with wave of job applications over new $170,000 pay package for drivers - but they'll have to toil in depots and on worst driving shifts for five years before they earn it

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-12 07:13|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Hmmm, some living wage, eh?

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-08-12 08:57|| 2023-08-12 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Nobody is reading the fine print.

That 170k is salary and benefits. No UPS driver is going to bring home that much in cash.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2023-08-12 09:32|| 2023-08-12 09:32|| Front Page Top

#3 $170K less the Teamster Union Dues (which will go up), Teamster Medical Dues (which will...), Teamster Retirement ...LOL... Fund (ditto) and the US/State/Local taxes will munch on the rest of the 'raise'. So the big winner is ~~Organized Crime~~ the Union.

Posted by magpie 2023-08-12 10:14|| 2023-08-12 10:14|| Front Page Top

#4 $170K less the Teamster Union Dues (which will go up), Teamster M*dical Dues (which will...), Teamster Retirement ...LOL... Fund (ditto) and the US/State/Local taxes will munch on the rest of the 'raise'. So the big winner is ~~Organized Crime~~ the Union.

Posted by magpie 2023-08-12 10:14|| 2023-08-12 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree with #3, but #4 is just hyperbole

Posted by Frank G 2023-08-12 10:37|| 2023-08-12 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Better than the Yellow Freight wages.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-12 11:41|| 2023-08-12 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 I worked for GM from 2000 until 2007. There was worry, at the time, that the UAW would eventually slather on so many wage and benefit demands that it would crash the company. I left just in time.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-12 12:46|| 2023-08-12 12:46|| Front Page Top

#8 $170 k, probably half cash and half benefits, so $85 k after 10-20 years work. So $40+ per hour? Sounds like good pay for the work required. Now if they are doing roofing in Texas in the summer…

Posted by Glenmore 2023-08-12 14:09|| 2023-08-12 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 At a certain point Amazon will have the infrastructure to begin to absorb that business. Their cost structure will allow it.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-12 15:35|| 2023-08-12 15:35|| Front Page Top

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