I hear a vote is on the horizon
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Not going to happen. The UP dispatchers are managers......lmao
How many BNSF dispatchers are there?
How many UP dispatchers are there?
The headcount difference should be all anyone needs to know whether to vote union or not but again a lot of UP dispatchers love being a 'manager'
If they don't vote it in this time, then they are doomed and get what they deserve.
@1mp sure
thank u @1aq had no idea the discrepancy between bnsf dispatchers & up dispatchers. Here is to hoping up’s dispatchers organize and get their just deserve.
Nobody can be as good as Todd Henry the Big Dog!! 250 or 248 desk
@b2 New UP dispatchers make roughly $100k per year and will never reach the top of the company's pay scale of $141k. The UP dispatchers also deal with expensive high deductible health care plans. They have large combined territories. They receive no overtime for being worked off assignment or working rest days.
In comparison, a new BNSF dispatcher represented by the ATDA makes $147k per year straight time after 60 working days. ATDA dispatchers also receive the comprehensive National Health and Welfare Plan for $308/month and $700 yearly family deductible. The union dispatchers have far less territory and receive overtime if worked off assignment or on their rest days.
Let's hope they actually do it this time. They have had several chances and declined each time only for the working conditions, health care, and disrespect to get worse. Why would someone not want better compensation, health care, schedules, job protection, and defined work rules?
That is what they want you to believe.
A good dispatcher is priceless. But can someone please educate the rest of us why the dispatchers would unionize? How would the dispatchers benefit?