please enlighten me how putting pay and benefits in a contract, and having work rules would make them close their doors. if you were there, when they cut our benefits, you would understand, but i sort of doubt you were.
please show me ABF teamsters who are disgruntled with their job. ABF is 10 times the job LAXNE is, and them being a "small, and/or regional company" is no excuse for junk equipment and worthless "benefits". If they wen't out of business tommorow, better freight companies that have been undercut by this bottomfeeder could pick the freight back up, and the workers at laxne could go to the other, better companies.
show me where workers have organized a company, only at the companies "convenience", since they " had extra money. were you born last night, or are you just simple? if you ask ANY of these companies if they are making money, they are all "hurting, going broke, just scraping by", etc. who cares, pay me a decent wage, with decent benefits, or SHUT DOWN. I will NOT put up my pay and benefits as a companies backup money. if they can't offer decent health insurance, GET OUT of the business. if they can't offer what everyone else does for wages, go out of business.
once again, if they wen't out, i'm sure yrc, abf, upsf, and others could gladly pick up the slack.