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'No Drones or Driverless Trucks', Demands Teamsters Labor Union (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CNBC:
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... The current agreement affects 260,000 full and part-time UPS employees and expires in July. "UPS is focused on a contract that provides the flexibility needed to remain highly competitive, given the challenge of an increasingly crowded logistics segment," the company told CNBC.
The Drive notes the smaller carbon footprint of drone deliveries, while adding that "one completely understands and empathizes with the aversion truck drivers have toward this stark, autonomous future.
"If it feels like their jobs are being endangered by the incredible exponential growth in technology, it's because they are."
The Drive notes the smaller carbon footprint of drone deliveries, while adding that "one completely understands and empathizes with the aversion truck drivers have toward this stark, autonomous future.
"If it feels like their jobs are being endangered by the incredible exponential growth in technology, it's because they are."
Forgoing driverless vehicles for package delivery will be the end of UPS. The cost of logistics will be too much to compete when FedEx and DHL start
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
All the years working to improve things with the goal of being able to work less. And the work is hard, so we build a society that requires people to work. Then as we near success, we discover that we built a society that can't handle it.
I am sure their learned leadership was made aware of this option, and swiftly dispatched the messenger with a baseball bat.
Exactly this. Unions have proved their worth in the early 20th century. Unions needed to exist to balance the power between employer and employees. We thank our current protections in the workplace largely to the unions of the past.
That said, today's unions are nothing more than legalized mafia. They are allowed to steal your money through paycheck deduction, approved by the Supreme Court. It may be legal, but it is still theft. (see also https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...)
I sincerely hope these unions die a quick death. There is hope: the Supreme Court is going to have another look at this: http://www.insidesources.com/s...
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
. I suspect it's because the teachers' unions are anti-Republican that the Republicans are so deliberately destructive when it comes to education.
It's debatable whether teachers' unions help teachers, but they are certainly the enemy of students.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.