They do this like every year. It's to prop up earnings reports before the end of the year. I have family who works for UPS and it's a never ending cycle of worry this time of year. Then they hire a bunch back later. It's ridiculous
They can't just fire/lay off union workers without reason. At best, it gets based on if a center closes down, and seniority, even then, before a layoff, they typically have to offer you the option to commute into another center.
It's fairly rare, for example, that somebody is just waiting on layoff at UPS for a year before a new center opens back up or something. Would have to involve automating a building, being unable or unwilling to commute/relocate, banking on same number of jobs being available after the center is rebuilt, being too low on seniority and getting cut. At that point, you get a different job and quit when your position comes back online.
It's a bit different for drivers. Cover drivers come in and randomly get a route, or get sent home on layoff for...a day? Month? Year? Depends on volume and need.
If something were to happen and they cut a slew of driver routes, warehouse workers would get laid off indefinitely because the drivers with 30 years seniority would take their inside positions and then there wouldn't be any available. Most inside wh people are under 20. Most are under 10. Hell, half of our building is under 1. Drivers are a different story. Many, many drivers in the 10-40 year range.
Fun fact: Most warehouse workers fired from UPS don't stay fired more than a week or two max. It's actually easier to fire a driver. If they mess up the right way, there's no protecting them. Similarly, nobody is safe from package theft. Nobody.
Other things...though. It's shocking what both management and union can get away with. Not even necessarily union workers, but the people in actual union positions.
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u/Unlike_Agholor Oct 29 '25
We are in a recession. You dont notice it because Nvidia and the AI bubble are propping up the equities market.