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ABF | CEO Letter to Employees Nov 1 2010

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Dear Fellow Employees,

Today, ABF filed a grievance and accompanying lawsuit in federal district court against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and YRC Companies (YRC) in an effort to resolve serious problems concerning a breach of the National Master Freight Agreement (NMFA). It is our firm belief that the three rounds of concessions granted to YRC by the IBT – with the latest deal just ratified last week – are in violation of the NMFA that has been in effect since April, 2008. The NMFA applies to every company that signed it and quite simply, with these three amendments, that is no longer how it’s being applied.

While the legal actions now underway are somewhat complicated, what we’re trying to do is simple. We want to level the playing field for all NMFA signatories through the grievance process and by asking the court to declare invalid the side agreements benefitting only YRC. We’re also asking for the damages that ABF will suffer as a result of these exclusive side deals in an amount estimated to be $750 million.

Our many attempts to resolve this matter have not succeeded. We’ve had many meetings and exchanges of letters with the IBT in the hope that we could avoid filing the grievance and the lawsuit......................

CEO Letter to Employees | ABF Legal Action
 
Go get 'em Bull Frog. Let me be the first to apologize, as a retired Roadway driver, for the suffering caused to ABF Teamsters by the inept management at YRC. Go get 'em Bull Frog.
 
I'm with ya ABF!!!!!! You got screwed. Screw the Teamsters and YRC. Not the employees of YRC, just YRC management.
 
I believe this action is past due. I have nothing against the YRC workers but this environment is detrimental to me and the food on my table. I have yet to find one YRC worker who would be willing to take a cut in pay to save ABF if ABF was on the rocks.
 
Frankly I am suprised it took this long for ABF to file suit against IBT. It seems in order to try and save YRC the leadership was willing to scarifice the employees of ABF.
 
Marine6 said:
Frankly I am suprised it took this long for ABF to file suit against IBT. It seems in order to try and save YRC the leadership was willing to scarifice the employees of ABF.
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No,it's going to be up to the teamsters at ABF to sacrifice to save their company. ABF will go out of business eventually with their current cost structure and that is a fact.What happens to YRC is not even a factor in what happens to ABF in the next year or two
 
AzPilot said:
No,it's going to be up to the teamsters at ABF to sacrifice to save their company. ABF will go out of business eventually with their current cost structure and that is a fact.What happens to YRC is not even a factor in what happens to ABF in the next year or two
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Do you actually beleive that none of your givebacks go back to the customer? They are low balling rates big time & thats why its hard for abf to compete.
 
In my opinion ABF is screwed. I hope they win this lawsuit but in the long run it won't matter if the current pension and health care problem isn't addressed. What needs to be understood is that ABF doesn't care about our hourly or mileage pay. They need to get out of the health and welfare fund as it currently works. The thing is with the average age of an ABF driver being above fifty years old it will never happen. And to be honest I can't blame the guys that have only a handful of years to go till retirement to be unwilling to except change. So what I'm prepared to do is continue to work at a job I enjoy with people I really like and when the next concession package comes up for a vote I will review it thoroughly and if it doesn't address the main problems (pension&healthcare) I will vote no. The best thing for me and anybody else in my situation (5 yrs employed and 32 yrs old) is that somehow ABF is able to get away from these pension plans. When starting at this company I was thrilled to here about these plans but after looking into them I soon realized that me or anybody else in my situation would never see more than a small portion that would be garunteed by the government if I was lucky. But like I said I don't begrudge anybody that has put in the years and is close to retirement to be much more willing to take a wage cut instead of a pension change or cut. With all that being said I sure hope the industrial output in this country by 500% and we will a lll be fine (yrc included).
 
Dirk_Diggler said:
In my opinion ABF is screwed. I hope they win this lawsuit but in the long run it won't matter if the current pension and health care problem isn't addressed. What needs to be understood is that ABF doesn't care about our hourly or mileage pay. They need to get out of the health and welfare fund as it currently works. The thing is with the average age of an ABF driver being above fifty years old it will never happen. And to be honest I can't blame the guys that have only a handful of years to go till retirement to be unwilling to except change. So what I'm prepared to do is continue to work at a job I enjoy with people I really like and when the next concession package comes up for a vote I will review it thoroughly and if it doesn't address the main problems (pension&healthcare) I will vote no. The best thing for me and anybody else in my situation (5 yrs employed and 32 yrs old) is that somehow ABF is able to get away from these pension plans. When starting at this company I was thrilled to here about these plans but after looking into them I soon realized that me or anybody else in my situation would never see more than a small portion that would be garunteed by the government if I was lucky. But like I said I don't begrudge anybody that has put in the years and is close to retirement to be much more willing to take a wage cut instead of a pension change or cut. With all that being said I sure hope the industrial output in this country by 500% and we will a lll be fine (yrc included).
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You're right,wages don't need to be cut ,but the $8.00 an hour into the pension(I personally am in favor of the pension)is killing them when trying to compete on price with fedex,UPSF and conway.It might also require some of the work rules be modified,but still better than losing a good job.
 
AzPilot said:
No,it's going to be up to the teamsters at ABF to sacrifice to save their company. ABF will go out of business eventually with their current cost structure and that is a fact.What happens to YRC is not even a factor in what happens to ABF in the next year or two
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Please tell me you really don't believe the garbage you just posted?
 
AzPilot said:
Really need to pull your head out from where ever it is buried and look around at the ltl freight industry and see how much it has changed,time for a dose of reality.
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Its changing beacuse you are willing to vote yes to anything. just be thankful they dont lower minimum wage.
 
GO40 said:
Its changing beacuse you are willing to vote yes to anything. just be thankful they dont lower minimum wage.
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Fair enough, you can stay as you are until the end,it will come sooner than you think.

Consolidated Freightways.....full wages and benefits to the end.
 
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AzPilot said:
Fair enough, you can stay as you are until the end,it will come sooner than you think.

Consolidated Freightways.....full wages and benefits to the end.
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Now lets see you took 3 givebacks and are still projecting a 18 million dollar loss at best. cf had conway bleeding them dry. Not a fair comparison.
 
AzPilot said:
Fair enough, you can stay as you are until the end,it will come sooner than you think.

Consolidated Freightways.....full wages and benefits to the end.
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at least I'll go out making what the company and union agreed on in the current contract , and I'll go out standing up, not cowering around on my knees like the chicken crap yes voters
 
abf is wasting time and money on this lawsuit.yrc did not sign any agreement,s with abf.abf is just upset because their employee,s voted against any give-back,s.why should yrc employee,s lose their job,s,because abf employee,s voted no.the only winner,s in this law-suit will be the lawyer,s.
 
abfgreasemonkey said:
at least I'll go out making what the company and union agreed on in the current contract , and I'll go out standing up, not cowering around on my knees like the chicken crap yes voters
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Not cowering on my knee's,but smart enough to see what's going on around me,when the trucking industry shrinks from 100,s of union companies down to 2,you can't see a problem.Better organize fast or get ready for the end of the NMFA after 2013.


You can call the YES voters whatever names a tough guy like you want to call teamsters that want to keep their jobs.You might want to think about how you are going to vote when they come to you for concessions again it may be more important than you think.
 
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Not cowering on my knee's,but smart enough to see what's going on around me,when the trucking industry shrinks from 100,s of union companies down to 2,you can't see a problem.Better organize fast or get ready for the end of the NMFA after 2013.


You can call the YES voters whatever names a tough guy like you want to call teamsters that want to keep their jobs.You might want to think about how you are going to vote when they come to you for concessions again it may be more important than you think.
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I will vote the same big fat NO I did last time.
 
yrc guy.i voted no.and to bring the pension onto the proposal.i thought that was wrong.because us members dont have a say in the pensions.that is up to the trustees of the pension.we were told that yrc would close the doors with a no vote.each time we vote on something.nothing changes.not demeaning our union.just my opinion about how much we give and it looks like yrc keeps wasting our givebacks.
 
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