As far as ABF, from my understanding, ABF has have pulled out of Negotiations with TMI. The proposed Agreement includes YRC and it's subsidiary Carriers. This contract may serve as foundation for what ABF will propose, negotiate, but ABF's pullout from TMI was primarily a company move to better suit ABF's Company needs. This at this point appears to be in the Companies / Employees best interest after reviewing information pertaining to the Tenative Agreement posted on 1/8/08.
For the life of me I cannot see the benefits to abf for pulling out? Not really.all abfers will also vote on this as it is an area wide / industry contract
yeah i bet if abf could've guessed this would be the tentative deal they would'nt of pulled out
For the life of me I cannot see the benefits to abf for pulling out? Not really.
I'm not sure we will be able to vote on this. The union posted a letter at our terminal (ABF) about the meeting for YRC employees to review the proposal, and added to the bottom of the letter that ABF employees would also be welcome to come check it out, but it sounded as if that was just a courtesy to us. I think since this contract only covers employees of TMI members, we will have to wait until they have a contract with ABF before we will get to vote. Not sure, just my opinion...all abfers will also vote on this as it is an area wide / industry contract
yeah i bet if abf could've guessed this would be the tentative deal they would'nt of pulled out
I'm not sure we will be able to vote on this. The union posted a letter at our terminal (ABF) about the meeting for YRC employees to review the proposal, and added to the bottom of the letter that ABF employees would also be welcome to come check it out, but it sounded as if that was just a courtesy to us. I think since this contract only covers employees of TMI members, we will have to wait until they have a contract with ABF before we will get to vote. Not sure, just my opinion...
http://www.teamster.org/divisions/F...tions/pdfs/080108_freightcontractmeetings.pdf
"all freight members, including those employed by ABF and other carriers not represented by TMI, will be given an opportunity to participate in the ratification vote on the standards agreement".
Talk has it that we ABF will vote on the master freight and present it to davidson.
Maybe because ABF doesn't want Yellow/Roadway deciding what is best for them.