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You know you guys are your own worse enemies. You talk about courage and try to make the people that are against the union look like they have no courage or are as you put it kool-aid drinking individuals.
What about the drivers that were shot and that had bottles thrown through their windshield. You can have your teamster courage I'll stay with the kool-aid drinkers.
Skeeter no offence to you, I have actually enjoyed posting with you skeeter, I can honestly say this. Let's ponder upon a few thing's and I am sure alot will agree, "UPSF" people will agree. These people who had done, what they did during the last strike ,bottle throwing , name calling, shooting, hitting, keying, and so on and so on. These people are nothing more then CRIMINALS wether they have affiliation with the teamster's or not, they are nothing but, and alway's will be CRIMINALS, and if it happened to me in the again I would treat them as such.
Again, if HOFFA told me too kill someone in the name of the TEAMSTERS (not to say he did) I would tell him to get FU****. Even if it was at the cost of my liveleyhood. And again alot of TEAMSTER'S did not comply with the violence involved in the strike.The problem here is we have a tendancy of labeling people wich is a big problem in society today. "KOOLAID DRINKERS" "TEAMSTER KILLERS" Hipicritical at best.
When we were "O" Leo came through on alot of things, Things were not the best of coarse, but what company provides the best?
When there was a vision (and I know how alot of people hate hearing this statment)
I feel alot of people had hope in the company and that thing's was getting better.
We saw, Time and a half, and we were told "O" employees would never see it.
We saw better insurance, supplimental ins.
Vision Ins.
Dental
alot of the power units changed for the better, vans, pups etc.etc.
We had a working man's atmosphere where the TM more or less had to follow rules and a driver had reprieve by calling HR. when needed ,to rectify problems with MGNT. with no recoarse.
Raises every year, and more productive years meant more then the common $.50 a year.
"O" had done alot in the short time, I was there, every year things were better, and better, adding truth to "THE VISION".
I will be the first to admit, I was infact a "KOOLAID DRINKER" because it tasted good, and we had no reason too think otherwise.
NOW we get bought out, and things take a turn in a different direction.
The working mans rules is out the door with no reprieve, judgement is now turned over to TM'S ,not to say some lack good judgement but most is in tune with the #'s vs a stupid rule book.
Forget about calling HR they do not want to hear about it anymore.
Do not go out on short term if you live paycheck to paycheck.
No layover pay for the first three hour's.
Ins. has gone up and has managed to get worse in most cases in respect on what they want to payout. and in some occasions have to argue on the doctor's behalf for payment after submission.
The $.50 we recieved for cost of living raise , is the equivelent of charity when it comes to inflated ins. cost's.
And I could go on and on and on, alot has changed thus far, and I do not think things will be getting better anytime soon.
At the very least not in our favor.
We now work for a company that cares more about effeciency and #'s. Then the driver's well being.
Union's today can be compared to, Capitalism,Communism, Dictatership's, Kingships, and so on and so on. In theory all sound great, and are for the benifit of the people, but are nothing more than theory as opposed to in practice.
So please all, KOOLAID DRINKERS AND KILLER BAD BOY TEAMSTERS Is nothing more then stereotypes or LABEL'S . Please leave this home. A disagreement is fine but let's make the best of it.
