"Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour."
One has to wonder what tech workers could achieve through collective bargaining.
One has to wonder what tech workers could achieve through collective bargaining.
Having said that - tech workers could achieve a whole lot through collective _struggle_ (of which bargaining is just a part):
* They could prevent mass government surveillance
* They could force companies to share their patents and other "intellectual property" with the rest of society, for the benefit of everyone.
* They could link up with other workers in areas such as the SF bay to force the government and tech companies to finance construction of public housing and limit rent.
* They could mobilize and lead struggles for getting corporate money out of politics (well, at least the direct kind of money in politics).
... and of course take care of their own interests in the form of participation in company decision-making, protection against arbitrary terminations, equitable pay scales, less excessive work hours etc.
I was hoping for more details on the agreement, and it seems you have them. Could you please share the data that leads to this conclusion?
Thanks!
So if we take a company like Google where we could plausibly say "the average top salary for a SWE is $500,000/yr," already it is possibly more remunerative than most places an SWE would work. We could assume it was stated in extremely bad faith, that only 0.5% of the SWEs there make that and everyone else makes $75k. Or we could assume there is a ladder, a progression, and a path to get there. I don't believe the extremely bad faith representation would work here because of likely PR blowback. QED there is likely a path for a delivery driver to earn six figures at UPS.
> a representation of the gains of a typical worker who is subject to the deal
This is covered elsewhere in TFA, and is dependent on the kind of employee.
Somewhere around 100-125K delivery drivers; any of them with 4 years full time seniority by the end of the contract, since the 5-year contract includes year-by-year general wage increases. The exceptions are employees in progression (less than 4 years full time under any classification), article 40 employees (air drivers, not many), and some seasonal work, most of which is defined under regional supplements.
Pay rate is determined by the contracts and years of seniority, nothing more.
Essentially, you didn't answer the question.
What is this.
So the average top rate would be the average of the top end rate amongst all drivers.