canaryinthemine
Retirement....The Job I Was Born To Have!
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Vote them out! Vote them out! If Hoffa and Co. no longer have the spine to fight the companies, then they should step aside. If Mr. Hoffa is convinced he can't do....."anything",.....well, it's way past time he retired,.....because he's lost sight of what his job is.....If it's a forgone conclusion that all the LTL carriers will fold if the Union fights for ...."anything"....then TAKE THEM TO THE WALL!,.....and get everything you can BEFORE they close,.....instead of mealy-mouthing them into prolonging the agony and piecemealing our paychecks, dignity, and conditions into oblivion,.....and making themselves just that much richer in the process.....
When a company threatens "closure" like that,....you've got two courses of action........you acquiese to their demands, and they gradually bleed you dry, and then they close,..........OR,...you ask for,.....DEMAND, rather.....the Moon,....Everything,.....Pay raises , increased vacation, permanent health care,.......EVERYTHING!..........The company will either close immediately,........OR THEY'LL BLINK,......and back down, and start negotiating honestly,.....without the threat of closure hanging over the contract talks.....
If our current so-called....."leadership"......no longer has the intestinal fortitude to bargain like a TRUCK DRIVER,....instead of like a spineless bunch of office-dwelling wimps too worried about the nice featherbed they've made for themselves,........and, in the last five years ,they have PROVEN that beyond the shadow of a doubt,....then
they truly no longer have the "cojones" to actually fight lies and propaganda spread during contract negotiations,......then it's time to step aside and retire,....to polite and somewhat quiet applause and muted accolades,.......AND GET THE HECK OUT OF THE WAY!
There's a driver shortage going on....worst one ever, and it certainly isn't getting better...., and we got 'em by the proverbial short hairs,.....and both the companies AND the IBT are going to bend heaven and earth to convince us it ain't so.....
When a company threatens "closure" like that,....you've got two courses of action........you acquiese to their demands, and they gradually bleed you dry, and then they close,..........OR,...you ask for,.....DEMAND, rather.....the Moon,....Everything,.....Pay raises , increased vacation, permanent health care,.......EVERYTHING!..........The company will either close immediately,........OR THEY'LL BLINK,......and back down, and start negotiating honestly,.....without the threat of closure hanging over the contract talks.....
If our current so-called....."leadership"......no longer has the intestinal fortitude to bargain like a TRUCK DRIVER,....instead of like a spineless bunch of office-dwelling wimps too worried about the nice featherbed they've made for themselves,........and, in the last five years ,they have PROVEN that beyond the shadow of a doubt,....then
they truly no longer have the "cojones" to actually fight lies and propaganda spread during contract negotiations,......then it's time to step aside and retire,....to polite and somewhat quiet applause and muted accolades,.......AND GET THE HECK OUT OF THE WAY!
There's a driver shortage going on....worst one ever, and it certainly isn't getting better...., and we got 'em by the proverbial short hairs,.....and both the companies AND the IBT are going to bend heaven and earth to convince us it ain't so.....