1st May 2012
UPS BLISSFUL IGNORANCE
Many problems including very serious legal concerns have been put to and orchestrated
by me and many others, to the very top Management at UPS and these people at the top exhibit willful blindness towards the wrongdoings within the UPS organization. These top people through their published code of Business Practice preach fairness and compassion but in reality they are guilty of huge failings of corporate governance and throughout they would seek to cover up rather than seek out the wrongdoing and discipline the perpetrators. These very top people live in willful ignorance about what is going on which clearly raises the question of competence for these very top people.
The very top is Scott Davis he is very much aware but does nothing.!!!
UPS FORCES SUBCONTRACTOR OUT OF BUISINESS BY DUBIOUSE MEANS
On 5 April 2011 10:38, Geoff Hallam
Hi Dave
Just been reading your web page with great interest and am glad to see that someone is prepared to take on the all so mighty and all so corrupt UPS.
I have fallen foul of UPS myself in the last 3 years, when I foolishly got into bed with them as a contractor in their package distribution division in Leeds.
I was originally an owner driver for Lynx Express when it was purchased by UPS in 2006. It became apparent that it was their intention to get rid of all owner drivers and replace them with Outside service providers. These were to be Limited companies only with their own employees. This meant that they could still service areas at a greatly reduced cost and it would also negate them from any responsibility with HMRC over whether or not owner drivers should be employed or not, as this was a grey area.
Myself and another owner driver decided to join forces and tendered for one of the areas in January 2008. We felt compelled to do this as if we had not we would have had no business as they were terminating owner drivers.
From the outset it became clear that all was not above board (shall we say) as we appeared to be being groomed to win the tender. How do I know this you might ask? Well after the tender was submitted we were contacted and told what our rates should be and we did indeed win the contract. This constituted a coercive tendering process and I feel quite sure that if all parties who tendered new this they would be non-too pleased and may in fact have a legal case against UPS. Included within the tender was details on how many vehicles and staff we would provide to service the contract.
After we had started to service the contract in April 2008 they then started to demand that we provide staff to cover and assist with evening shifts etc. This was not part of the original tender but they made it quite clear that they expected us to provide these people. Apparently if you speak to any company who does contract work for UPS this is the norm they want to pay for a bronze service and get a gold service. They had also massaged the figures in the RFQ, which was used to formulate the tender, and this meant that we were down approx.. 20% on revenue. We argued that as they had supplied the figures they had a responsibility to make good the contract. You’ll no doubt not be surprised when I tell you that they declined.
We fought on for the first year at great expense to both myself and my business partner. This ultimately led to myself losing everything! Then in May 2009 a new customer moved onto our patch which was to be the saviour of our business and safeguard everyone’s jobs. This was worth approx.. £180,000 a year to our business and when UPS figured this out they withdrew the work from us even though we had an exclusive territory rights contract. They felt aggrieved at having to pay us so much to service one customer.
There are too many incidents of bad practice and bullying by management to include in this email, but it culminated in the company going into administration in January 2011. This was as a result of us issuing legal proceedings against UPS for material breach of the contract. They manoeuvred us into a position whereby we could not function and indeed Steven Lake of UPS contacted our funding lines which resulted in us having great difficulty in releasing funds. It was at this point we called time.
During my time there I heard many tales of bad management and bullying of their own staff, again far too many to list, but as you say management have their pets and all cover each other arses by lying through their teath. There is also issues with drivers working too many hours whilst being on tacoghraps, although they would deny this, no surprises there.
People within this organisation to look out for are Craig Mcintosh, Rob Burrows, Steven Lake all Walter Mitty characters.
“WALTER MITTY, An ordinary, often ineffectual person who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs.”
Do not trust these people at all they are all liars
Regards and keep up the fight
13th May 2010
Well here we are still no action by United Parcel Service UK Ltd
But of course as you all will now know this is not a surprise, most of you (at Shaw Cross/Derby) will have been threatened with disciplinary action of one sort or another and will have been forced to back down due to their Bullying attitude and threats, especially from Julian Smith Mick Labourn and Paul Sellars.
UPS Managers at Shaw Cross are very brave in the confines of their offices not so of course in Public.
I also intend to publish on this web site the documented evidence produced by Mick Labourne and Paul Sellers which proves that they told deliberate lies in an Employment Tribunal. All these documents have already been produced in an open British Court of Law and are therefore already in the Public Domain.
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