This will be a good starting point.
A very good start! We have to maintain HAZ-MAT licenses ....for the companies' benefit,....at OUR own cost,.........We have to work open air docks in all kinds of weather....unheard-of in the 21st Century,..........We have to risk our lives daily in the most dangerous conditions an industrial occupation can offer........How many people died on the highways last year,...versus how many died in all other occupations?
We are NOT covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,.....so, unless you NEGOTIATE it,...they don't have to pay you overtime,...or minimum wage......( Go stop at Chicago's Lake Station truckstop, and ask one of those steelhaulers waiting for a load if they are paying him to wait.........or ask a guy in the bullpen of a food warehouse if he's paid to wait for a door to unload...)
Younger people are staying away in droves,...and the industry admits there is a severe labor shortage,......we work in 20th Century conditions....sometimes 18th Century conditions..........
And,.....they claim their Labor Costs are too high!
How about this? Why don't you go to an Amazon warehouse, and offer the people inside ABF's top rate to work the dock or drive truck? Pension and H & W included......
I will bet the farm .....half of those Amazon people will quit in the first week,......and go back to those nice, warm, clean, safe Amazon warehouses,.....and the other half will go the next week.......( I ain't saying a word about how many would fail the drug test.....)......
Your Labor Costs are too "high",....only in relation to how much wages and benefits cut into corporate profits and bonuses.......ABF has now become like every other employer that regards it's own employees ....as an impediment to profits,......and a "necessary evil",...to be tolerated and paid as cheaply as they can get away with.....