And I said freight where I am isn't slow. Its busy and gettting heavier. Someone mentioned competitors hiring which is happening. Is yrc hiring too? I don't know. Probably. Are you two spooning around a laptop?
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And I said freight where I am isn't slow. Its busy and gettting heavier. Someone mentioned competitors hiring which is happening. Is yrc hiring too? I don't know. Probably. Are you two spooning around a laptop?
Typical liberal response.
same song different day. time to change that same old tune,
maybe our sales people should leave the office and go back out into the streets like the old days , and when we get freight it would be easier to keep that customer if we could get bills for it instead of it sitting until its late ..
Don't forget - hiring isn't the same thing as working. Just because you get hired doesn't mean you'll be working much or even at all.
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I was told early this week that if anyone refuses to train a casual they will be discharged! WTH is going on with this company? DS
That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. If one refuses to train someone should be kicked in the seat. What is the world coming to if this is a issue.
If you want to be a pita, you can just train them poorly!
I hope you don't really mean that (and I don't think you do).
I never could understand the animosity that so many have toward casuals when all they're doing is working in accordance with the provisions of a contract that the majority of us voted in and approved.
How could I, or anyone else, begrudge a person for wanting to make an honest living?
Refusing to properly train is wrong on SO many levels, I cannot even begin to....
But, basically,
If someone is working for YRC as a casual, one would think that their proper training would be a benefit, rather than an inconvenience.
I clean up enough of other peoples messes, I don't need to train someone to create additional ones.
I don't know if you were r/w or yellow but if you were roadway at least all the places I worked they have a habit of misusing casuals .
1 they would work them premium shift for 29 days then get a new group in for the next day.30 days the would of had to add bids to that shift.guys with 20 +working midnight and casuals working 7:30 or 8:00 am with weekends off ... that's just not right.
2 they would and still do call casuals in 1/2 b4 full time call board guys were eligible and make them sit instead of getting their weeks finished.
3 now we have layed off guys coming in when called but they are made to train some newbie and then have to split the hours with them leaving neither with insurance ... that's just not right.
when we were "balls to the wall " no1 cared .as a mater of fact guys wanted to train newbies. it was like a day off.
now its like training some1 to take your job . THATS JUST NOT RIGHT
1 they would work them premium shift for 29 days then get a new group in for the next day.30 days the would of had to add bids to that shift.guys with 20 +working midnight and casuals working 7:30 or 8:00 am with weekends off ... that's just not right.
2 they would and still do call casuals in 1/2 b4 full time call board guys were eligible and make them sit instead of getting their weeks finished.
3 now we have layed off guys coming in when called but they are made to train some newbie and then have to split the hours with them leaving neither with insurance ... that's just not right.
when we were "balls to the wall " no1 cared .as a mater of fact guys wanted to train newbies. it was like a day off.
now its like training some1 to take your job . THATS JUST NOT RIGHT
In those scenarios, I agree, it is not right.
I have not seen a casual in 5+ years.
We are getting a new TM though, things are bound to change. How much I cannot say, I am preparing for the worst.
After the change 2 weeks ago, our barn was using cartage and casual labor, the very first day!
This is after 120 guys from Bell couldn't follow-the-work and ended up in the pool list.
Plenty of work for cartage and casuals, but not enough work for regular employees, who gave 15% and pension contributions back.
This is after 120 guys from Bell couldn't follow-the-work and ended up in the pool list.
Plenty of work for cartage and casuals, but not enough work for regular employees, who gave 15% and pension contributions back.
The way casuals are treated are the reasons Unions were created. I have worked as a casual for both jackass companys.
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I'm at a satellite here in the NE that absorbed about half the work at the closed terminal to our west. We took in 14 people and we're Balls to the Wall. Customers are giving us extra freight because We have more coverage than the previous terminal was providing. TM is going to bring back 10 more to help grow the area. I see that because We have more freight We're loading more directs, this is probably cutting the work at the BB's. That's what the COO was designed for, less handling, less damage. That Blows for LH and BB workers. Let's hope jobs come back by increasing freight volume.
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another thought, maybe they're training casuals hoping they get more freight by servicing customers better.
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sorry, cheaper your right I agree there isn't a lot YRC does better, thanx
You spelled cheaper(better) wrong
There was a time when casuals and/or new hires got paid exactly the same (scale) as seniority employees. Casuals were always full dues paying Teamsters who earned vacation, benefits, etc. just like seniority men. Lots of guys worked most of their careers as casuals just because they liked the freedom of being able to work or take off whenever they felt like it. Along the way something happened and we Teamsters agreed to some crappy contracts where we allowed the graduated pay for new hires and casuals. We screwed ourselves and our new brothers and have only ourselves to blame for that fiasco. Of course there will be some who think new hires should never get the same pay as they get. Ha, guess what, when you're laid off and have to start over somewhere else at lower pay, how does it feel? It never used to be that way.