XPO | Congratulations! ! You can thank Laredo!

Well, the raise doesn't kick in till January. That will be your only raise for a long, long time
Yup. I have also realized how underpaid I have been so many years. Seventy five cents is the largest raise I ever remember in my tenure, and now it's kicked up da#? near $3.
 
Thanks for Laredo starting this, but if it wasn't for the 30 plus terminals organizing efforts and adding more interest, we would have seen no change. Everybody should be thanking the Teamsters and the passion of a lot of us trying to organize, otherwise you would have seen nothing. Don't think Conway was just trying to do the right thing, Odfl still makes more then us with a better retirement, along with fedex, abf, and ups freight with a pension. Your clueless, the teamsters got you a raise, we still need a retirement and security, keep the drive alive

The shortage got us the raise. Competitors are raising wages. Even SWIFT has raised their wages. The palace refuses to take the cameras out of the trucks. So they are gonna have to get used to paying a lot more for drivers.

The union thing is nice. Helps fan the flame a bit. But really. It's only a small part of the problem.
 
Keep this in mind as well fellas because I'm hearing you guys are afraid you will get a YRC contract. That is anything but the truth and will not happen. The YRC contract/MOU was a concessionary contract that was voted on to give that company a chance to survive after Bill Zollars darn near bankrupted the place.

Here is what you can expect with a contract.... With a successful organizing drive like which seems to be happening at Conway the workers actually sought out the union. With that I would expect that you will negotiate a very good contract with strong language regarding seniority, work rules etc....Some on here have mentioned a contract similar to UPS. Understand those are two different worlds all together. The Parcel contract is the cream of the crop and its that way because of the type of freight we haul and the profit margins we make. LTL freight doesn't have the margins that parcel has because you can't load that freight like parcel does due to actual freight dimensions. That explains the difference but for Conway you should expect and demand a better contract than the UPS Freight contract. Remember you guys sought out the union and that is a HUGH feather in your cap come negotiation time.
 
The shortage got us the raise. Competitors are raising wages. Even SWIFT has raised their wages. The palace refuses to take the cameras out of the trucks. So they are gonna have to get used to paying a lot more for drivers. The union thing is nice. Helps fan the flame a bit. But really. It's only a small part of the problem.
Correction; the union is part of the solution.
 
Never had this problem. In fact settled four money grievances yesterday without even filing any paperwork.


To be perfectly honest, and this is not intended as a joke, in all my years as a teamster the only ppl who got paid on grievances without a massive battle were the company pukes.
 
To be perfectly honest, and this is not intended as a joke, in all my years as a teamster the only ppl who got paid on grievances without a massive battle were the company pukes.
The company screwed up, they admitted it, and paid those who were violated. Happens all the time.
 
To be perfectly honest, and this is not intended as a joke, in all my years as a teamster the only ppl who got paid on grievances without a massive battle were the company pukes.

I've been in the teamsters union since 1975, and I've never heard more of a spew of BS In that time!! Apparently your greviences were chicken sh** ones to begin with!!! And this was not intended as a joke either!!!!
 
I've been in the teamsters union since 1975, and I've never heard more of a spew of BS In that time!! Apparently your greviences were chicken sh** ones to begin with!!! And this was not intended as a joke either!!!!


The Teamsters have changed since 1975
 
Some of these guys are still living in 1975.

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Con-way Central teams!!!!
 
This is comical. Have any of you actually been Teamsters within the last 10 years? They are worthless.

They have certainly done a lot of good for people over the years, but the organization as a whole is a shell of it's former self.

They will promise you the moon to get the dues money rolling. There was a time when the Teamsters had companies by the balls. Now you file a grievance on a blatant contract violatiob and 18 months later you may or may not get the problem resolved.

Sounds a lot like the company, making promises. The difference is the company has been doing it for years and they quit the pensions and **** you for insurance.
 
The shortage got us the raise. Competitors are raising wages. Even SWIFT has raised their wages. The palace refuses to take the cameras out of the trucks. So they are gonna have to get used to paying a lot more for drivers.

The union thing is nice. Helps fan the flame a bit. But really. It's only a small part of the problem.
Did you really think people were going to believe that when your typed it ??? REALLY ??? :hysterical:
 
The Teamsters have changed since 1975

No that's now, I'm still working!! Bought a few trucks back in 1990 and started a business And once I got that going I came back in1996 to finish my time and retire!! If you file a ignorant grevience you may have a problem, Mine have always been handled in a fair and timely manner!!
And highspeeds I think If an anti union guy put a turd on here you would like it!!!!! Just saying
 
Some of these guys are still living in 1975.

Not the case, I'm very aware of the times I'm living in !!! And I don't worry about working 14 hours a day to make it, unlike I've heard you bellow about over and over....... I don't live pay check to pay check.......
 
No that's now, I'm still working!! Bought a few trucks back in 1990 and started a business And once I got that going I came back in1996 to finish my time and retire!! If you file a ignorant grevience you may have a problem, Mine have always been handled in a fair and timely manner!!
And highspeeds I think If an anti union guy put a turd on here you would like it!!!!! Just saying

A few trucks? That means you have Teamsters driving for you. How is their pension looking?
 
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