Labor Unions destroying yet another American institution: Congrats NALC & APWU

[2Manboobs]

Lifetime Pensions & exorbitant salaries for unskilled workers strike yet another blow to American common sense.





Eighty percent of the Postal Service's annual budget goes toward employee salaries and benefits.
By contrast, 61% of the United Parcel Service's budget goes to employee-related expenses. FedEx spends 43% of its annual budget on personnel costs.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data indicate the average hourly compensation for postal union members is $41 versus $28 for the private sector.
"Perhaps it's not surprising that the postal service's two primary rivals are more nimble," Leonard writes. "According to SJ Consulting Group, the USPS has more than a 15 percent share of the American express and ground-shipping market. FedEx has 32 percent, UPS 53 percent."


...Despite the agency's economic woes, the 250,000-member American Postal Workers Union negotiated a cushy labor deal with the USPS in March.....


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/thing...#ixzz2K8qqho3c

[Chriza]

Jack in the Box is good

[2Manboobs]

Jack in the Box is good

And cheap... Because they're NON-Union

[2Manboobs]

"Thanks, Union!!"

[mattyfishrip197]

ooooga....boooooga

[jdwhatever]

Lifetime Pensions & exorbitant salaries for unskilled workers strike yet another blow to American common sense.





Eighty percent of the Postal Service's annual budget goes toward employee salaries and benefits.
By contrast, 61% of the United Parcel Service's budget goes to employee-related expenses. FedEx spends 43% of its annual budget on personnel costs.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data indicate the average hourly compensation for postal union members is $41 versus $28 for the private sector.
"Perhaps it's not surprising that the postal service's two primary rivals are more nimble," Leonard writes. "According to SJ Consulting Group, the USPS has more than a 15 percent share of the American express and ground-shipping market. FedEx has 32 percent, UPS 53 percent."


...Despite the agency's economic woes, the 250,000-member American Postal Workers Union negotiated a cushy labor deal with the USPS in March.....


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/thing...#ixzz2K8qqho3c

Ups is union. So bad example author.

[2Manboobs]

Ups is union. So bad example author.

They haven't been around as long...Give it time. We'll be talking about substantial alterations to UPS (due to salaries & pensions) in the not too distant future ... Hopefully they wont wind up toppling UPS like they've done to Hostess & so many others...

[waltermelon]

They haven't been around as long...Give it time. We'll be talking about substantial alterations to UPS (due to salaries & pensions) in the not too distant future ... Hopefully they wont wind up toppling UPS like they've done to Hostess & so many others...

But unions are working so well for Argentina...

[jdwhatever]

It's not so much the union as it is bad business practices such as junk mail on Saturdays

[waltermelon]

It's not so much the union as it is bad business practices such as junk mail on Saturdays

Junk mail has to pay postage dues, how is that a bad thing (for the post office, personally I hate junk mail)?

[MatthewT]

Junk mail has to pay postage dues, how is that a bad thing (for the post office, personally I hate junk mail)?

because it's so damn cheap to do; idk the actual cost, but let's say $0.01 per house. you got a dude walking a route of 200 houses to deliver each one a piece of junk mail, and he has made you $2 on that run.

[waltermelon]

because it's so damn cheap to do; idk the actual cost, but let's say $0.01 per house. you got a dude walking a route of 200 houses to deliver each one a piece of junk mail, and he has made you $2 on that run.

Then the USPS is fucking stupid.

[2Manboobs]

because it's so damn cheap to do; idk the actual cost, but let's say $0.01 per house. you got a dude walking a route of 200 houses to deliver each one a piece of junk mail, and he has made you $2 on that run.

The "house to house" delivery system does seen to be outdated... when I bought my new home, they built a block of mailboxes on about every 3rd or 4th street... So the mailman only had to deliver our neigborhhoods mail to a few locations instead of having to go from house to house... That was far more efficient for them, and not much of an inconvenience for us..

[2Manboobs]

It's not so much the union as it is bad business practices such as junk mail on Saturdays

The advertisements & real mail could be separated & dealt with fairly easily if they wanted to ...And that pales in comparison to the behemoth salary & pension expenditures

[MatthewT]

or, example of how even a bad thing, a free market union, is better than a worse thing, a government union

post office is a monopoly, and can't make money

[jdwhatever]

or, example of how even a bad thing, a free market union, is better than a worse thing, a government union

post office is a monopoly, and can't make money

Agreed. Public sector unions r kinda silly.

[gwartney]

Agreed. Public sector unions r kinda silly.

I don't know if this is true of all public sector unions but the one at my wife's gov employer is not mandatory. You don't even have to pay in to get the benefits and be represented. It's not even a large office and the union guy gets away with doing practically nothing but "union business".

BTW, as some of you may know, I'm not anti-union at all but waste is waste.

[gwartney]

Do you have a pension 2man?

[2Manboobs]

Do you have a pension 2man?

I have a 401k through my employer, and a separate retirement fund that I've set up through my financial planner

[jdwhatever]

2 man boobs is very angry at unions. Lulz.