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Redracer3136 said:
Now you're playing with words and simply blowing everything I said out of proportion to meet your argument...nice :poke:

"Economy was what was left from Watkins" meaning a majority of the freight we received from them after the merger was long haul or economy freight, never did I imply that all of the economy freight we currently move is what was leftover from Watkins.

1) do you really believe that was the way I meant it...seriously?? Economy freight has a service window as well but when it comes to priority or economy making service, we'll move the priority freight first every time.

2) Economy revenue per shipment is higher than priority because it has a much longer length of haul (and no, I never implied that every shipment was 1000+ miles) and the average economy shipment size is slightly larger (takes up more space).

3,& 4) 50% of economy freight moves by rail

I'll continue to trust my sources, in the meantime I'll remember to proof read every reply to you to make sure I'm speaking in generalizations so you won't take everything so literal. :poke:
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3-4) I'll buy the 50% number. I think that would include the lowest rate volume shipments.
 
Purple Hammer said:
If unions are so great why did you go to work for a non union carrier when you "left" Fedex Freight. Perhaps you should change your avatar to Flip Flop, since you constantly change your position as to unions being good or bad.
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My issue was with the Local. I still enjoy the debate and believe when Unions are strong all of us in the middle class prosper. You wouldn't have what you do in this business had it not been for the Teamsters.
 
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"Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man’s business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

Yes, I am my brother’s keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death."

Eugene V. Debs
 
Dick Dastardly said:
My issue was with the Local. I still enjoy the debate and believe when Unions are strong all of us in the middle class prosper. You wouldn't have what you do in this business had it not been for the Teamsters.
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I don't blame you for not finding employment with one of the union carriers. New hires are really done wrong with their different wage scale. And with the wage concessions, pension solvency issues, and precarious profitability they are a losing proposition. The local is a joke as well. Why would you think Fedex CLT should have to deal with local 71 after your experience with those clowns?
 
Big Dave said:
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Dang!!! You're a heartless SOB, DD.
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Oh, did you want one too? My apologies. I didn't leave you out on purpose. I will send you something special to make it up to you Big Dave. I have a case of Cherry Lemon Sun-Drop going out on the next UPS shipment tomorrow.


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Redracer3136 said:
Agreed, we're just having a little fun, no biggie...old friends?? We've never met...

I'll disagree with the rest of your post...the company does in fact pay us for our service. When you came in for the interview, the company offered you an opportunity to provide a service in exchange for a compensation package and guidelines for which you must adhere, to which you agreed...you sought out the company, they didn't come looking for you.

Sorry but the changes in this country go back further than this....back to the 60's with the dope smoking hippies and their socialist movement wanting free this and free that, that was the turning point, or the beginning of the downfall, for our society...the entitlement movement!!

From there, people wanted something for free and didn't want to work for it anymore which led to Americans becoming lazy!! This then morphed into a whole society that wants to sit down with their hands out saying gimmie, gimmie, gimmie!!

Now we have the majority of those who think like Dick, those who are wealth envy and believe they should get the same as the execs even though they didn't work as hard to get there. Not saying Dick is lazy by any means, he's not, but he was brought up like most people, after years of brainwashing, to believe that everyone is entitled to what someone else has and it's this whole entitlement thing that has ruined our great country!!

You said it, knowledge is power...If you want the perks that the execs enjoy, perhaps you should return to school, get a degree in economics, business, finance, etc and start a new path to becoming an exec...or start your own business to where you call the shots, either way I'm quite certain you'd have a whole different outlook...or you can just grab another gear and keep trucking!!
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People like you that settle for mediocrity is what has ruined this country. People with no ambition that just settle to be average. No one is entitled to anything especially a truck driver making what an exec makes. Where do you come up with this crap?
 
Redracer3136 said:
Agreed, we're just having a little fun, no biggie...old friends?? We've never met...

I'll disagree with the rest of your post...the company does in fact pay us for our service. When you came in for the interview, the company offered you an opportunity to provide a service in exchange for a compensation package and guidelines for which you must adhere, to which you agreed...you sought out the company, they didn't come looking for you.

Sorry but the changes in this country go back further than this....back to the 60's with the dope smoking hippies and their socialist movement wanting free this and free that, that was the turning point, or the beginning of the downfall, for our society...the entitlement movement!!

From there, people wanted something for free and didn't want to work for it anymore which led to Americans becoming lazy!! This then morphed into a whole society that wants to sit down with their hands out saying gimmie, gimmie, gimmie!!

Now we have the majority of those who think like Dick, those who are wealth envy and believe they should get the same as the execs even though they didn't work as hard to get there. Not saying Dick is lazy by any means, he's not, but he was brought up like most people, after years of brainwashing, to believe that everyone is entitled to what someone else has and it's this whole entitlement thing that has ruined our great country!!

You said it, knowledge is power...If you want the perks that the execs enjoy, perhaps you should return to school, get a degree in economics, business, finance, etc and start a new path to becoming an exec...or start your own business to where you call the shots, either way I'm quite certain you'd have a whole different outlook...or you can just grab another gear and keep trucking!!
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The Labor movement in this country is quite a bit older than 50 years old. I posted a quote from one of the big labor leaders above from the 19th century to show you an example.
 
Here's another from the turn of the twentieth century:

"Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again; been seized by the throat and choked and clubbed into insensibility; enjoined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the press, frowned upon by public opinion, deceived by politicians, threatened by priests, repudiated by renegades, preyed upon by grafters, infested by spies, deserted by cowards, betrayed by traitors, bled by leeches, and sold out by leaders, but notwithstanding all this, and all these, it is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun."

Eugene V. Debs
"An Ideal Labor Press," The Metal Worker (May 1904)
 
Dick Dastardly said:
The Labor movement in this country is quite a bit older than 50 years old. I posted a quote from one of the big labor leaders above from the 19th century to show you an example.
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I will ask again since you tip toed around it last time. Why does someone as pro union as yourself not work for a union carrier, and never has? And yet you try to convince everyone that the union is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Are you a "union salt" or secret agent for the teamsters? Or is it the inferior pay, questionable pension, and precarious brink of bankruptcy issues with the majority of those carriers?
 
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