Unions very much had their place about a hundred years ago but they are not keeping current and adapting with changing technologies. Case in point from CNBC:
Union heavyweight wants to ban UPS from using drones or driverless vehicles
No drones or driverless vehicles for delivering packages — that's one of the major demands from the Teamsters labor union in the big contract negotiation it's undertaking with UPS this week.
The union wants to ban UPS from using such new-fangled technology, which the logistics company has been reportedly testing. That's just one of the negotiating points on the table for one of the nation's largest collective bargaining agreements, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.
UPS confirmed to CNBC the details of the Teamsters proposal. The current agreement affects 260,000 full and part-time UPS employees and expires in July.
They are negotiating themselves into irrelevance. UPS will find a way to route around this damage and union membership in the work force will slip from 10% to even less. A bit more:
Other demands outlined in an 83-page document submitted to UPS this week include hiring another 10,000 workers and halting deliveries after 9 p.m., including during the peak-delivery holiday months of November and December. UPS said it's hired 40,000 more Teamster workers in the U.S. in the last five years.
Yeah - like that is going to fly in this competitive world. Why not ask for chocolate sprinkles and a unicorn too...
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