ABF | Tentative ABF, Teamster Contract Calls For Subcontracting, Pension Freeze!

This is the worst contract proposal I have ever seen!!! The money they are taking from you will go to buy other companies, and to better stockholders, and managements financial profiles, and not ours work If this is passed it will because of fear, and not what is best for you, and your family. Think about whats in the contract, and what management can and will do with it. You will be looking over your shoulder for at least the life of this contract, and maybe the rest of your life.

If this is passed This is going to affect every Road Driver here. They are planning to subcontract our Road Work and you will be sitting home. Please Read this contract very careful and if you do YOU WILL BE VOTING NO AND SENDING THE NEGOTIATING COMMITTEES BACK TILL THEY GET IT RIGHT
 
Well, I admit I read the contract proposal Wrong. I thought the pension was going to be left alone and I thought my 3rd week vacation I was suppose to get in Aug was safe too. I was wrong.
This is a no vote for me. I would have been ok if it were just a 7% pay cut.
The pay cut alone would have saved ABF 20 or 30 million. That should have been enough.
And possibly camera's in the truck? Big no no!
 
I agree, this is the worst contract proposal I have ever seen. What do we, as employees, get for all that we are giving up? I heard someone say at “least we will have a job.” The same thing could be said about working at McD’s. That is a defeatist attitude and I am not here to just have a job. I work too hard and risk too much just to have a job. I want and need to do better than that. Please help me and vote NO.
 
Honey guess what- i paid 800 dollars to become a teamster.and i get to pay them 60 dolla a month to work, and best of all i get two weeks vacation in 8 years isnt that great !
 
with this agreement you may NOT be able to say at least I have a job. .Purchased transportation is a job killer for road drivers. If they take all 4% from one area only that's a large amount if they spread it around the system 4% isn't bad. I think the proposal stinks.
 
It's beyond comprehension why they would want to take a week's vacation away... the 7% cut is one thing but I can't vote yes for a loss of a basic work right that puts our vacations well below any industry, much less competitors. that's just unacceptable... attacking VACATIONS for pete's sake ??
 
Well, I admit I read the contract proposal Wrong. I thought the pension was going to be left alone and I thought my 3rd week vacation I was suppose to get in Aug was safe too. I was wrong.
This is a no vote for me. I would have been ok if it were just a 7% pay cut.
The pay cut alone would have saved ABF 20 or 30 million. That should have been enough.
And possibly camera's in the truck? Big no no!
And not just cameras, but audio (microphones) too! No more privacy while talking on your cell phone in the tractor (while not driving of course) on on the dock?! ABF management has already targeted who they will get rid of for "theft of company time" if this is passed. A lot of them are on truckingboards too!
 
Honey guess what- i paid 800 dollars to become a teamster.and i get to pay them 60 dolla a month to work, and best of all i get two weeks vacation in 8 years isnt that great !

Don't forget to tell her she can watch you all day on YouTube when they install the driver-facing camera in the truck........For "Safety".
 
Franky, I find it insulting that ABF and the IBT spent a good bit of their time codifying surveillance language. Really?....This is a big problem? Or....is the knuckleheads on the IBT negotiating team doing just what Brother Freightmaster says.....setting up the groundwork so ABF can eliminate any "troublemakers" who speak up. Honestly, Mr. Sweeton,....Mr. Johnson......have you guys been out of the workforce so long,...breathing that rarified air in D.C.....that you would actually sign your names to a Union contract that contained the words " Not Corroborated" in it? And.....just how much of the money they will steal off of us will go to new technology to do surveillance on us? Well.....I know I'm on their list. I'm a Steward....Greensburg 310, in Pennsylvania,....for all you company Quislings who are writing this down... I refuse to leave my Constitutional Rights of Free Speech at the company time clock.......and if you have to set up a kangaroo court.....with Non-Corroborated evidence to silence me.........I would say something about your consciense......and morality......but it would just go right over your heads. How about this, all you Bible Belters in Fort Smith?..."Ye Will Be Judged By Your Works And Deeds."
 
Franky, I find it insulting that ABF and the IBT spent a good bit of their time codifying surveillance language. Really?....This is a big problem? Or....is the knuckleheads on the IBT negotiating team doing just what Brother Freightmaster says.....setting up the groundwork so ABF can eliminate any "troublemakers" who speak up. Honestly, Mr. Sweeton,....Mr. Johnson......have you guys been out of the workforce so long,...breathing that rarified air in D.C.....that you would actually sign your names to a Union contract that contained the words " Not Corroborated" in it? And.....just how much of the money they will steal off of us will go to new technology to do surveillance on us? Well.....I know I'm on their list. I'm a Steward....Greensburg 310, in Pennsylvania,....for all you company Quislings who are writing this down... I refuse to leave my Constitutional Rights of Free Speech at the company time clock.......and if you have to set up a kangaroo court.....with Non-Corroborated evidence to silence me.........I would say something about your consciense......and morality......but it would just go right over your heads. How about this, all you Bible Belters in Fort Smith?..."Ye Will Be Judged By Your Works And Deeds."

No biggy, just remember time is of the essence you get a 10 minute break not 12.
 
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