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Von, I have a questions for you and any other present and past Union member.
How many of you write off your Union dues on your taxe's?? And what do you get or will get when you retire from a union location?
We at UOA had a meeting with the regional HR guy and i asked him. What do we get when we retire from XPO. His answer was, NOTHING. You get a pay check now you better manage your money now. So you work your life away for people who want you to work your ass(life) off and all you get is old and broke.


You can write off your dues & uniforms if you have enough expenses to itemize your taxes. For just me & the wife we never reached enough expenses to do that. Your expenses have to be 1 dollar greater than your combined deductions. And most people @ our pay level don't meet that. If you make 90 to 105,000 per year as a road driver you probably itemize. But if your adjusted gross income (AGI) is say 60,000 or less, most likely you don't have enough expense to qualify to itemize. I had 17.2 years vested with the Union ALL under ABF. Retired @ 61 years of age. 2040.00 gross income per month from Central States. And that will change in the future due to Central States being under funded. I would go Union in a heart beat @ ABF to reap the full pay & benefits under the Master Freight Contract. Barring ABF I would go to work for Dayton my # 2 choices. Less pay & no pension but they treat you with respect. Go look on the Dayton forum & read the responses to 'Do you like working @ Dayton', speaks for its self. von.
 
The one thing the union can not tell the employer is what start times they will have. Also the company reserve the right to cancel and adjust the start times as it sees fit. I been there we would bid and then the warehouse would change load time. Then it started shifts getting canceled and the bump down starts by the time it was all said and done you could be starting 3hrs late then when you first bid
NMFA never had the intention of telling the company how to operate. Just Work protection work rules and compensation package.
 
Just thought I put that out there. Since most union contract state that a certain percentage will have a start time when there is a layoff that percentage stay the same. You could go from start time to flex board. I know a guy at UPS freight that it happens to every year. When they layoff start time change if only for a few months.
So what work rules is the union promising you that they can't guarantee.
When you have an agreement in your bid rules if you can hold a city bid destination it would have a start time and if it is to be changed the terminal would have to rebid whole board. Any business levels change start times adjust and will cause a rebid.
 
When you have an agreement in your bid rules if you can hold a city bid destination it would have a start time and if it is to be changed the terminal would have to rebid whole board. Any business levels change start times adjust and will cause a rebid.
See, that makes sense to me and when I first posted to this issue, that's what I thought was possible with a contract. I've always thought that a bid was like contract between the company and the driver and guaranteed a start time, in fact that's what I was told. When I first started working here, I was told that a city bid guarantees me a start time, but not a certain area. Rather than dick with a guy's start time, management should consider changing destinations of DSR's in order to make good on their city bids, right?
 
See, that makes sense to me and when I first posted to this issue, that's what I thought was possible with a contract. I've always thought that a bid was like contract between the company and the driver and guaranteed a start time, in fact that's what I was told. When I first started working here, I was told that a city bid guarantees me a start time, but not a certain area. Rather than dick with a guy's start time, management should consider changing destinations of DSR's in order to make good on their city bids, right?
At holland city bid start times unassigned destinations and yard. My terminal just rebid due to TM moved all start times up 1&2 hrs and forced 10hr minimum days. Change in freight season freight is sitting til 4:30am guys come in so he moved start times to earliest 2am
 
Von, I have a questions for you and any other present and past Union member.
How many of you write off your Union dues on your taxe's?? And what do you get or will get when you retire from a union location?
We at UOA had a meeting with the regional HR guy and i asked him. What do we get when we retire from XPO. His answer was, NOTHING. You get a pay check now you better manage your money now. So you work your life away for people who want you to work your ass(life) off and all you get is old and broke.
I always wrote off my Union dues and I'm retired and get a little over $3300 a month
 
When you have an agreement in your bid rules if you can hold a city bid destination it would have a start time and if it is to be changed the terminal would have to rebid whole board. Any business levels change start times adjust and will cause a rebid.
The big words here are "when you have" everything in the contract is negotiated. The bid rules you have might be different then someone else's.
 
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