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Posted today:
"At the end of week, NMB Mediators Linda Puchala and John Livingood stated they were concerned at the pace of the current talks. Both sides were informed that it is the intention of the NMB to reach a final agreement by the end of the 1st quarter of 2005. As we enter into our third year of direct talks with the company we are pleased the NMB is putting a timeline on these negotiations and that UPS has agreed to this new timeline.
UPS has stated in the past they were unwilling to talk about any economic issues until the Scheduling article is complete. The IPA wants to go on record to say we will discuss any issue, in any order,at any time in order to comply with the NMB's request. But let me be very clear. The IPA has already submitted its full contract proposal to the company. We are still waiting for their response to Scheduling, Scope, Compensation, Health Care Benefits and Retirement. Under the new mandate from the NMB, we look forward to written, detailed counter proposals on all articles.
In the coming weeks, you can expect the company to continue to portray our demands as unreasonable. They will portray the Executive Board and the Negotiations Team as confused and scattered. They will be seeking information and intelligence from any and all sources, especially from our crewmembers as they try to probe for that 51% contract. UPS will play the game as they have for decades. They believe that if they can wait a little longer our crewmembers will get tired, frustrated, and dejected. They believe that time is on their side. We disagree.
Our competitors are spending billions of dollars as they mount a campaign to take away precious market share in the package industry. Look around. Everywhere you go, you see the new yellow and red trucks of DHL. FedEx is committed to completing the contract with their pilot group so they can get down to the business of going after "BigBrown". In the fast paced and ever-changing world of international transportation and logistics, time is something UPS does not have."
"At the end of week, NMB Mediators Linda Puchala and John Livingood stated they were concerned at the pace of the current talks. Both sides were informed that it is the intention of the NMB to reach a final agreement by the end of the 1st quarter of 2005. As we enter into our third year of direct talks with the company we are pleased the NMB is putting a timeline on these negotiations and that UPS has agreed to this new timeline.
UPS has stated in the past they were unwilling to talk about any economic issues until the Scheduling article is complete. The IPA wants to go on record to say we will discuss any issue, in any order,at any time in order to comply with the NMB's request. But let me be very clear. The IPA has already submitted its full contract proposal to the company. We are still waiting for their response to Scheduling, Scope, Compensation, Health Care Benefits and Retirement. Under the new mandate from the NMB, we look forward to written, detailed counter proposals on all articles.
In the coming weeks, you can expect the company to continue to portray our demands as unreasonable. They will portray the Executive Board and the Negotiations Team as confused and scattered. They will be seeking information and intelligence from any and all sources, especially from our crewmembers as they try to probe for that 51% contract. UPS will play the game as they have for decades. They believe that if they can wait a little longer our crewmembers will get tired, frustrated, and dejected. They believe that time is on their side. We disagree.
Our competitors are spending billions of dollars as they mount a campaign to take away precious market share in the package industry. Look around. Everywhere you go, you see the new yellow and red trucks of DHL. FedEx is committed to completing the contract with their pilot group so they can get down to the business of going after "BigBrown". In the fast paced and ever-changing world of international transportation and logistics, time is something UPS does not have."
