I did use quotes in the posts prior to you chiming in.
FedEx Freight | Vancouver Center closing?
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Your probably one of those who ***** about the USA moving jobs over seas and Everything you own comes from there!!!!
Haha, so you did. That means you need to type slower so that I can follow along because who you are talking apparently changes the definition of your words.
Like Assman, I too will not knowingly support union-made goods. I will buy American made whenever feasible. I will buy Hecho in Mexico over Chinese-made everyday.
What keeps overseas manufacturing jobs overseas is our cost to produce goods here. Unions, basically extorting artificially high costs into production doesn't exactly entice manufacturing jobs to return, same goes with the EPA.
Im not a great typist to begin with. If I go any slower it will go to screen saver.
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Allow me to chime in on the original topic. This has not been announced at all here, and I have contacts in operations who I can ask if needed. I would assume this to be hocus pocus considering they just added a team switch between Vancouver and Calgary a few months ago because of increasing freight volumes.
Part of it WAS true last year. Freight volumes were less than projected and a couple of teams were knocked off out there as a result. But I have heard nothing regarding the pending closure of VBC.
Part of it WAS true last year. Freight volumes were less than projected and a couple of teams were knocked off out there as a result. But I have heard nothing regarding the pending closure of VBC.
Maybe I should have spelled it out better for you. PT is Purchase Transportation. That is rail and or contractors hauling it down the road at a much lower price. Your chimps are hauling it for a lot less then we pay our people to move it. This eliminates road runs which keeps drivers home or forcing them to relocate/layoffs like what was done earlier this year. This has happened and will continue to happen as we push this economy money maker. I don"t know what apples you are eating but the length of haul is not a tracked number in the report. Weight in the chart shows 262 & 247 pounds less weight for economy compared to priority. Seems to me that we haul lighter freight at a slower rate and make more money off it. Wow "Get an education..." Is that all you can do is claim that I am an uneducated individual and try to attack me like that. Talk about a baseless claim.
You hate all unions so much you specifically look at labels to make sure no union labor was involved in your consumption? Instead of your requests for people to quit if they don't like it, why don't you move somewhere where slavery is legal.
As I have said before, many times. I don't hate all unions.
I don't look for the union label, but if I see it, I'm not buying it. I would rather my money support American made products that are made by non-union companies. Just as I would rather purchase from a local true-value hardware store instead of Lowes or Home Depot. Or a local merchant as opposed to a big-box store.
I have friends who are business owners, I am very sympathetic to their plight. Having a group of employees collectively bargain to demand higher wages than a true free market would command is not something I wish to support.
Why would I want to move somewhere where slavery is legal? I'm perfectly okay with paying somebody what the job is worth, not what someone tells me I have to pay them.
The reason most manufacturing corporations move overseas is because of regulations the government(EPA) puts on them. I've seen many companies move out of the states for slave like wages, but guess what, when they move they never lower the cost of the their products. They will go anywhere they can get the cheapest labor, doesn't matter if they were making a ton of money or not.
Just a question for assman and ex396 how do you drive your cars/trucks with out gas??? The refineries are union making this stuff. How about your tractor's KW Pet(paccar) Ih all union. I think both these guy's really are closet union guy's just afraid to come out yet. enjoy yor day and vote union yes good luck fella's
it used to be a Cartage company up there... Do you not remember all the Hub bub about DEEP WATER PORT-containers... FedEx gamble stuck a terminal there IT didn't pan out... Just so happens what's going on now conflicted...
Exactly that mans POINT... Neither the UNION or NON UNION meant a darn thing
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First of all, I said that I don't knowingly buy union-made products IF I CAN HELP IT.
That being said, a good friend is with Occidental Petroleum. OXY returned a ton of money to shareholders in the form of dividends. OXY had the 3rd highest paid CEO in 2013. OXY paid a lump sum of about $15MM to Serani when he left, and pay him $1MM a year for life as part of his severance. Take that Slagle.
I own quite a bit of XOM. I am perfectly fine visiting my local stations as often as I do. I even buy Premium ;)
if i'm not mistaken Vancouver was or is a warehousing unit with only about 14 people.if i'm correct then I can see them shutting it down to save money on keeping the building up and running. but to think it was because they voted the union in was the only reason is a joke
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Yeah?...you are aware that no "free market" actually exists any longer? Maybe in the time of feudalism during the dark ages(must be something there that makes conservatives go all misty eyed), but no longer. What we call the free market today is created and maintained by any number of government supported/hosted/regulated institutions. We citizen taxpayers also provide an extensive infrastructure, both legal and physical, for this so called free market's existence. You can bet your small business friends belong to various trade groups and business chambers, as well as maybe got a gov't backed loan through the SBA to start their business. It seems there's a ton of organized help for corporations and small business entrepreneurs, but then some of these ideologues slam the very idea of the labor element of economics getting organized. Collective bargaining takes place in many facets of capitalism. It isn't exclusively a labor thing. So it seems to me, it's only through the partisan political ideology spectrum that you have a problem with organized negotiations between employers/employees. Get over it.....people have a right(a RIGHT!) to organize and bargain collectively without coercion or threat of discipline from their employer. Your fantasy scenario of a free market being free from collective bargaining is just that, a fantasy.
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yeah, those rich billionaires just need all the help they can get, huh?
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An update on this. It was officially announced at WTO this morning that VBC is closing.