from a reliable source is no raise thru this contract and 125 a wk for ins they can kiss my
Heck it would not surprise me if the company decided to discontinue offering paid holidays. Most of the large truck load carriers do not offer any kind of paid holidays, sick days, or personal days. Breakdown pay? Forget about it! Detention pay? Well.... Maybe "IF" we can collect it from the shipper we will pay a portion to the driver. Of course it may take a few weeks to collect it so do not expect it right away!
There are so many ways we could get screwed it isn't funny (on both sides union and non-union).
A couple ploys I have heard of being used at other carriers to try to hang on and stay in business include slow pay to the drivers, missing bills (so no pay to the driver), skimming miles from each drivers pay, even confiscating escrow and maintenance accounts from lease ops that quit or get fired. I hope management has more integrity and scruples than to even consider any of these tactics.
I am just waiting for the memo letting all the old timers here at Eastern know we will no longer be paid for drops/hooks or stops. Of course I hope this does not happen but when you are a non union employee and have no contract you really have no say other than to quit the company and try to get on somewhere else.
Come to think of it, I think they tried to implement a total pay structure change when Gavin was hired. I seem to remember a proposal to give up the drops/hooks and stop pay in exchange for a .02 cpm raise.
After crunching the numbers I realized this would amount to a $50.00 per week pay cut and so declined their "offer." One driver did in fact accept the change and was so angry when he realized he got a pay cut he threatened to quit over it.
In the current economy I doubt threatening to quit would be a sensible move unless you are independently wealthy or have a better gig all lined up.